Reviews

This movie is in my opinion clearly underrated even if it does have some drawbacks and problems. Thing is however - it's a horror movie! And it does create a scary atmosphere and give you a good scare just like you want it too! So it does deliver the goods so to speak. The effects are quite good and the actors are also unusually good, some of the supporting actors in particular. The plot-idea is interesting but the movie itself is sometimes a bit incoherent as if it was cut too short perhaps.

So why only a five out of ten? This movie is very gloomy and gray - it is shot that way, with very little color in it. That's OK. That's just fine. But after a while you get annoyed at people who's apparently never heard of light-switches! They will walk into any dark apartment, room, tunnel, closet, whatever without ever turning any lights on whatever! After a while it is so obvious it starts to annoy you. They don't just "not turn the lights on" - they'll do anything to avoid doing so! =) Another problem I had with this movie was the the fact that the "things" actually should have been able to catch who-ever they were chasing on numerous occasions and didn't. There are major logical tears in the plot which are hard to ignore. Another - minor - drawback was the main actress or character who's behavior I felt was a little stiff and sometimes even unnatural at some occasions. I don't know if it is the script or the actress who is to blame though.

But all things considered I got a good scare out of this one, and the movie actually built up an atmosphere that strongly resembles some of the better zombie-movies I've seen. Without the logical drawbacks in the plot and with the light allergy taken care of I probably would have given this movie an eight instead! See it.