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I agree that Cigarette Burns was a good purchase (espescially if its on sale).
I also agree that they should never have shown the actual "film". Who the hell made THAT decision? For Carpenter (or anyone else) to say that the movie wouldn't have worked if the didn't show the film just indicates a lack of imagination on the part of whoever said it. But since they made the (wrong) decision to show the film, then the least they could have done was make the damned thing interesting. The tape in "The Ring" was more disturbing than that garbage.
By the way, I wonder if the flashes of "cigarette burns" that we see in the movie are supposed to remind me of The Ring, or if that was just coincidence.
But then the whole idea of a "film that drives people crazy" isn't the most original in the world. I like this treatment of it, though. It kinda reminded me of the end of "In the Mouth of Madness" ...and I mean that in a good way.
Most stand-out scene? What the film collector does at the end. Even though I could kinda guess what he was up to behind that projector, when he actually DID it I was like... whoa...
Overall, I give it a 7.5 out of 10. Points taken away for lack of originality, but for an obviously derivitive work its pretty damned good.
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