I think anything would’ve been tolerable following The Wicker Man and Snakes on a Plane, but I’m sure I could’ve done better than this. There’s nothing wrong with this movie, but there isn’t anything particularly right about it either. The scares get more effective towards the end, and there are some really creepy visuals in places, but in the end you’d spend your time far better going back to its forebears, to the films of Wes Craven (though of course, not including the ever so slightly anomalous Music of the Heart), to the original Japanese horror movies like the one this is based on. What really lets the movie down most is the total lack of an ending, a Sarah Connor in T2 style voiceover tries to wrap it up, but it still really feels like the editor looked at the clock, saw it was 90 minutes, breathed a sigh of relief and tacked the credits on. I guess in a sense the ending is a lot like the ending of Hitchcock’s The Birds ... but I think it also really just comes down to, I’m not scared of wavy lines coming through my computer and turning me to soulless ash. It’s just not gonna happen, lol. Still, like I say, it’s not bad ... it’s just not good.

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