Could not have worded it better. I can't believe I originally thought it was good. The gore is ok, but its just... not that big a deal.

i dont see everyones problem with it. i though it was fucking excellent. The scenes in the house were so creepy and well done. i loved it. the ending was kind of a downside though.

spook rating: ZERO. It was just... blah. The kills were alright, but it felt like more of a drama actually to me. I did somewhat like the climax, when the girl stole that cool old car and started following the man, and then the fighting with the ripsaw at the end.

Movie would have been perfect, if it ended <SPOILER>
right after the chick kills the fat ass and screams into the night.

It would have left you with an uneasy/fucked up feeling.

A) This could really happen
and
B) There would be no happy ending. The nightmare is over, but her life would have never been the same.

it was a solid film .. it wasnt the best - it was far from the worst.

have you guys looked on the horror shelf of the local video store lately ?
It's not like we have a lot to choose from ..

I dont understand when people get all over a good new release that's about 100X better then the other 90% of horror showing up in the stores.

no no. either way, i love the flick.

But if it ended on a TCM note.
The movie would have gone from good..to MINDBLOWING.


Just an all out slasher/revenge flick. totally fucked up.

give me decent acting, music and effects and i'm happy.

not a lot of that available in horror these days ... especially the acting.

i miss the older days - like the 70's when good actors were used in horror films .. before the onset of home video.

now we get useless nobodies that cant act for shit .. and a soundtrack composed and performed on some geek friends computer using free music software- and edited by someone without the slightest concept of pacing and flow.

thats why i still prefer the saminess of the japanese horror invasion ... they are way better made then most of the crap coming out of north america.

I think we have a few decent actresses in scare flicks today, but not many. Jamie Lee Curtis is of course the best horror actress, but I think that, for today, Neve Campbell is still the new scream queen.

Scream 3 (2000) .... Sidney Prescott
Scream 2 (1997) .... Sidney Prescott
Scream (1996) .... Sidney Prescott
The Craft (1996) .... Bonnie
The Dark (1994) .... Jesse Donovan


ok ... define "today"

today as in, i'll say 1990 and up. I really can't think of an actress whose done a BETTER job than her, can you? *in only horror movies, not everything else.