[downside]

I'm not looking for an argument, but rather reasons users think I should like this movie. Here is what I gathered thus far on one of the more hyped movies out there that I got tricked into seeing.

When my friends all raved about this movie, I had to see it. When the die hard, Goth friends also talked about it's spookiness, I was there. And up until the credits roled at the end...I wait for said scary part and it never came. I left feeling sore from the power-torwuing I just received.

I can think of one think...one fucking thing that allowed me to continue watching. Of the 7200 seconds involved in this movie, two got my attention. Relatively in the beginning when the main mother is talking to the mother of the dead girl from the beginning, the dead girl's mother relives finding her daughters body. Wisely, the editing crew placed two seconds of footage of the body being found in the closet surrounded by a screech of noises. This made me jump, and smile, and look forward to the rest of the movie. This is what I like to refer to as the heavy petting of the movie...since the movie itself gave me horrorcore blue-ball.

The rest of the movie was spent trying to figure out how to not die in seven days. Slowly, she pieces together a story of a tormented girl who was tossed into a well and left for dead. The girl was weird before the tossing, so it was okay and acceptable to the town. The ring (as it should not have been a surprise) was really the girls view up from the well as her mother sealed it shut. She later died in (gasp!) seven days. This all seemed fairly solid.

Then I asked myself...so why the tape? Why the VHS? The little girl, although dead, somehow has a VCR? The cure for her too was lame...make a copy and send it around. I waited hours just to figure out that this is simply an over exagerated version of the "send this to 8 people or you'll have bad luck" emails. And when you finally did see the girl attack someone...she was just a naked wet albino chick that apparentally is so ugly, you die of fright. Don't worry though...she walks really slowly.

I guess I was probably jsut taken off gaurd by what I was told was the scariest movie of all time. Maybe I expect too much...like some horror. But for whatever reason, I was completely bored in this flick and can't fathom why people would say it was a good scary movie after watching it.

My Cousin Vinny was scarier.