The ingredients are okay: five pretty girls, high on hormones, who go out partying in this luxurious remote villa; some creepy locals; a mysterious but hunky boy-next-door; and an abandoned haunted house in the vicinity. But it's like the pieces of a potentially good puzzle that are put together in the wrong way, they just don't fit.
The five girls all are more or less interchangeable, no character-description whatsoever, so you have hardly any reason to sympathize with anyone of them. The weird man in the haunted house, who's kept hidden for some time as the mysterious force that's responsible for the disappearance and killing of some of the girls, come's totally out-off the blue, it's no-one we've seen before, so how can we relate to his presence and actions? Movies like this traditionally have to have a last grand twist, that should make you jump up just before the lights go on again, and they DO give it a try here, but I saw it coming from the beginning and I'm mostly the last to know things like that.
The only decent thing in this movie is the flash backs to the kid-brothers, where the vicious one plays "prove how much you love me!" and really causes some chills on your spine. But the rest of the supposed horror was lost on me, we never even see a real graphic kill. The acting and the direction are mediocre at best, it's like no-one really believed in the whole thing and just went through the motions the director asked them to.
But hey, I DID like the house (the neat villa, not the haunted one). It deserved a better movie.
The five girls all are more or less interchangeable, no character-description whatsoever, so you have hardly any reason to sympathize with anyone of them. The weird man in the haunted house, who's kept hidden for some time as the mysterious force that's responsible for the disappearance and killing of some of the girls, come's totally out-off the blue, it's no-one we've seen before, so how can we relate to his presence and actions? Movies like this traditionally have to have a last grand twist, that should make you jump up just before the lights go on again, and they DO give it a try here, but I saw it coming from the beginning and I'm mostly the last to know things like that.
The only decent thing in this movie is the flash backs to the kid-brothers, where the vicious one plays "prove how much you love me!" and really causes some chills on your spine. But the rest of the supposed horror was lost on me, we never even see a real graphic kill. The acting and the direction are mediocre at best, it's like no-one really believed in the whole thing and just went through the motions the director asked them to.
But hey, I DID like the house (the neat villa, not the haunted one). It deserved a better movie.