I've seen a lot of movies in the theater, and it seems every one of them had least one clip that was in the preview and not in the movie. These days they wind up as deleted or alternate scenes on the DVD.
But nearly the entire trailer left out? I guess that's going to be some whopper of a directer's cut when the DVD comes out. That being said, what was actually on screen was pretty darned good.
Had some issues with the way it started and ended (see SPOILERS below) but the actual content was both creepy and had some shock value. Plenty of jump out your seat moments, but what I love about these films is the way the tension slowly builds during a scene, until you know something is going to happen, you don't know exactly what, but you want it over with to get on to the next tension builder.
OK Rant time (SPOILERS) First scene shows Katie dropping off the box with tapes at Kristi's. Second scene shows Kristi and husband surveying the damage after the apparent break-in in PA2. They discover the box of tapes is missing.
Then all of sudden the 1988 tapes start on screen. Who's watching these tapes? Where did the box of tapes go? These questions are never answered at the start OR at the end. After that last (admittedly really creepy) segment I thought we might get taken back to the beginning for some kind of resolution, but the movie just . . . ends. I hope if there is a PA4 we get a few more answers and less questions.
However, this movie was still a pretty decent way to have a good fright near Halloween, or anytime you want to have the sh** scared out of you.
But nearly the entire trailer left out? I guess that's going to be some whopper of a directer's cut when the DVD comes out. That being said, what was actually on screen was pretty darned good.
Had some issues with the way it started and ended (see SPOILERS below) but the actual content was both creepy and had some shock value. Plenty of jump out your seat moments, but what I love about these films is the way the tension slowly builds during a scene, until you know something is going to happen, you don't know exactly what, but you want it over with to get on to the next tension builder.
OK Rant time (SPOILERS) First scene shows Katie dropping off the box with tapes at Kristi's. Second scene shows Kristi and husband surveying the damage after the apparent break-in in PA2. They discover the box of tapes is missing.
Then all of sudden the 1988 tapes start on screen. Who's watching these tapes? Where did the box of tapes go? These questions are never answered at the start OR at the end. After that last (admittedly really creepy) segment I thought we might get taken back to the beginning for some kind of resolution, but the movie just . . . ends. I hope if there is a PA4 we get a few more answers and less questions.
However, this movie was still a pretty decent way to have a good fright near Halloween, or anytime you want to have the sh** scared out of you.