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I saw the trailer for this movie and thought it looked great. Although I'm not a "horror" film fan I do like a good suspense and shock film, if intelligently presented or just plain entertaining.
This however is none of these things.
Surely a requirement of a horror film is to actually SCARE you, right? Why is it then that not one scene in this film is geared towards doing that. True, some of the ghosts antics might make you go "ewww" in mild disgust, but it's all handled so poorly you find yourself switching off 15 minutes into the film.
It's a crying shame because the actual plot is a great one - some mad old nut traps ghosts in his house in order to power some diabolical machine. Sounds good on paper and the machine and house itself actually looks great on the screen too.
But the ghosts weren't the only souless things in the building, where on earth did they drag-up such a "dumb and dumber" cast? I was actually rooting for the little kid to get sliced. Some of the ghosts look like they could be truly terrifying given a chance but what do we get? Some nutcase with a cage on his head slashing around for a bit and a naked "Carrie" covered in lipstick (sorry, slash wounds). The interesting looking ones do very little other than stand and watch the cast try and flee from them.
All in all I can't actually think of a single good thing to the film. It has just 1 twist to the plot which in itself is quite predictable, truly average effects, no scares whatsoever, dull acting and a dull ending.
Has to be one of the only movies I've ever seen where I enjoyed watching the trailers before more than the actual movie.
score 1/10
richdavey 23 March 2002
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