Reviews

badly written, bad performances see out this film. The plot revolves around a predictably disjointed attempt at nihilism in film, we have a lady and her son, they are both inexplicably woven into a web of death, all because of a poor copy of what looks like a badly made nine inch nails video, it gets worse, the characters flick between no more then 3 emotions and seem to do so with such ease and speed that it makes the seem fill disjointed and poorly conceived, while the acting of the younger cast member can sometimes be chilling it soon gets repetitive and predictable: would i of cared if at any point the main characters died? No. This film is just another poorly made, poorly shot attempt at a scary occult thriller, it doesn't work very well.

a brilliant film, wonderfully directed by Jim McBride: it breaks all the cheesy corny conventions of the "TV movie", the story swerves and moves and lives just as vibrantly as the characters do, this is one of the better movies I've ever had the pleasure of seeing. The movie transcends genre, the acting is believable, the characters are neither good nor bad, moral nor immoral, human or inhuman, there's a clever combination of all these things which makes them complex and frustrating maybe but never boring.

The acting is amazing, the story has real depth: it might not hit you straight away but the characters show their personality traits, and as a result more and more of themselves as the film goes on.

the film is sometimes ridiculous, (the final climatic scene comes to mind in which the students dive, scream, yell!.. all to avoid the police viciously attacking them.. with what you can obviously see are in fact fake plastic batons that bend when they hit people) the film is sometimes widely unbelievable, (i won't go into the chances of a character changing his very made up mind almost from one shot to the next)... beside it's ridiculousness, besides it's flaws, beside these things: it's a striking, cool, funny film that really gets you involved in what's going on and really interested in the characters, the characters are believable, the acting is great and it's worth seeing however you manage to