Teacher: In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
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plot : two teen couples go to a church party , drink and then drive .
they get into an accident .
one of the guys dies , but his girlfriend continues to see him in her life , and has nightmares .
what 's the deal ?
watch the movie and " sorta " find out . . .
critique : a mind - fuck movie for the teen generation that touches on a very cool idea , but presents it in a very bad package .
which is what makes this review an even harder one to write , since i generally applaud films which attempt to break the mold , mess with your head and such ( lost highway & memento ) , but there are good and bad ways of making all types of films , and these folks just did n't snag this one correctly
.
they seem to have taken this pretty neat concept , but executed it terribly .
so what are the problems with the movie ?
well , its main problem is that it 's simply too jumbled
.
it starts off " normal " but then downshifts into this " fantasy " world in which you , as an audience member ,
have no idea what 's going on
.
there are dreams , there are characters coming back from the dead , there are others who look like the dead , there are strange apparitions , there are disappearances , there are a looooot of chase scenes , there are tons of weird things that happen , and most of it is simply not explained .
now i personally do n't mind trying to unravel a film every now and then , but when all it does is give me the same clue over and over again , i get kind of fed up after a while , which is this film 's biggest problem .
it 's obviously got this big secret to hide , but it seems to want to hide it completely until its final five minutes .
and do they make things entertaining , thrilling or even engaging , in the meantime ?
not really .
the sad part is that the arrow and i both dig on flicks like this , so we actually figured most of it out by the half - way point , so all of the strangeness after that did start to make a little bit of sense , but it still did n't the make the film all that more entertaining .
i guess the bottom line with movies like this is that you should always make sure that the audience is " into it " even before they are given the secret password to enter your world of understanding .
i mean , showing melissa sagemiller running away from visions for about 20 minutes throughout the movie is just plain lazy ! !
okay , we get it .
. .
there are people chasing her and we do n't know who they are .
do we really need to see it over and over again ?
how about giving us different scenes offering further insight into all of the strangeness going down in the movie ?
apparently , the studio took this film away from its director and chopped it up themselves , and it shows .
there might 've been a pretty decent teen mind - fuck movie in here somewhere , but i guess " the suits " decided that turning it into a music video with little edge , would make more sense .
the actors are pretty good for the most part , although wes bentley just seemed to be playing the exact same character that he did in american beauty , only in a new neighborhood .
but my biggest kudos go out to sagemiller , who holds her own throughout the entire film , and actually has you feeling her character 's unraveling .
overall , the film does n't stick
because it does n't entertain , it 's confusing , it rarely excites and
it feels pretty redundant for most of its runtime , despite a pretty cool ending and explanation to all of the craziness that came before it .
oh ,
and by the way , this is not a horror or teen slasher flick . . .
it 's just packaged to look that way because someone is apparently assuming that the genre is still hot with the kids .
it also wrapped production two years ago and has been sitting on the shelves ever since .
whatever . .
. skip it !
where 's joblo coming from ?
a nightmare of elm street 3 ( 7/10 ) - blair witch 2 ( 7/10 ) - the crow ( 9/10 ) - the crow : salvation ( 4/10 )
- lost highway ( 10/10 ) - memento ( 10/10 ) - the others ( 9/10 ) - stir of echoes ( 8/10 )
Solution: N
Reason: The phrases used in the review convey a negative sentiment (e.g. "presents it in a very bad package").

Now, solve this instance: this review contains spoilers , but believe me , i do n't say anything you ca n't guess 10 minutes into the movie .
i *
did * go into this one with high expectations .
i had been exposed to media reports that this film would signify a departure from the slasher flicks .
i sort of expected another exorcist or the shining .
i even put aside my general rule of not seeing this type of film .
boy , was i wrong !
another garbage slasher flick
, the only difference being that * this * one has a story !
the story , you ask ?
well , a scumball buys a chinese puzzle from a guy in an arab souk .
he takes it home , somehow getting it past customs : - ) and starts fiddling with it in his attic .
lo and behold , after he takes it apart , three demons appear and start taking him apart , but
with meat hooks .
when they 're finished , his gizzards are hanging from the ceiling .
they botch up their cleanup job , however , and manage to leave his heart ( or some gland ; i did n't really recognize the organ ) under a floorboard .
the guy 's brother and his brother 's wife appear at the door soon after , and decide to move in .
they throw away scumball 's belongings , and set up house .
turns out that wife is a bit of a nympho , and screwed around with scumball right before her marriage .
she starts having some wild hallucinations .
later , hubby spills some blood on the attic floorboards ( slow - mo special effects of the buckets of blood hitting the ground -- all from the tiny cut on his hand ) .
said blood is eagerly sucked up by scumball 's organ .
the organ grows into a thing that requires yet more blood in order to complete the regeneration into a really ugly thing .
it establishes mind contact with wife , who agrees to help him get more blood , because she really wants to be screwed again .
so , she helps him kill three businessmen .
scumball , at this time , gradually gets his strength back and grows all his organs back .
problem is , he does n't have any skin , and even after three or four corpses , still does n't get any skin .
he finally gets some , though , but strangely enough , he ends up looking like his brother .
guess they could n't get the original actor back .
who knows .
scumball ( whose name is frank ) is not a nice guy .
he describes his torture by the demons fondly , as the " ultimate pleasure and pain , since at that level there is no difference between the two .
"
somehow , i do n't see getting torn apart by 90 fish-
and meat - hooks a lot of fun .
this guy is
* so * bad
( " how bad * is * he ? " ) ,
* so * bad that the * rats * cower in a corner in fear .
for good reason , too ; he crucifies two of them for fun , and carves a third while the nympho 's horsing around with hubby .
anyway .
hubby 's daughter ( who , if course , is not * wife 's * daughter ) starts to suspect something is wrong after she sees wife going into the attic with one of her johns and the ensuing screams .
the dumb bimbo meets scumball , and is not impressed .
she manages to escape with the chinese puzzle , and brings out the demons .
at any rate , the demons are pissed off that they screwed up their cleanup ; they 're normally quite meticulous about that type of thing .
the story boils down to the demons trying to correct their mistake .
the demons are not , however , the good guys .
the dumb bimbo 's the good guy .
she somehow not only gets them to take care of frank , but also banishes them to hell or oblivion , we 're not too sure which . not too shabby for someone with single - digit iq .
this is basically a " bad jinn " story .
it is an * awful * movie .
awful acting , bad focus in the photography
, many scenes of skin being penetrated by meathooks , which is really unrealistic , and looks like the latex that it is .
continuity ? who cares . acting ?
* terrible * .
script ?
horrible .
sounds canned .
unrealistic
.
story is so - so , but the impact is lost long , long before the film ends .
i do think the * rat * acting was quite good .
i have never seen rats look afraid .
they should get nominated for an award .
really good acting there , the best in the movie .
"
the envelope for best furry rodent , please . . .
" a " " rating would be far too generous .
a " 1/10 " rating ( or -4 in the -4 to +4 rating system ) is far more accurate .
this movie is so bad that people in the audience were laughing , chortling at the bad acting and crummy dialog .
i can see this film turning into the next rocky horror picture show .
people were getting so fed up they were yelling warnings up to the characters on the screen .
had to have something to do .
dumb , dumb , dumb movie .
i was embarrassed that i spent money to see it .
it goes without saying that i disagree with the other reviews on the board that attempt to review the film for itself .
lots of slime and red - dyed corn syrup does not constitute " horror , " in my opinion .
Student:
N