Wonderful character development!

A different way of telling a story

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Six stereo typical (nerd, jock, slut, geeky girl, etc) coeds soon discover that their dorm is haunted by an evil doctor due to the fact that their university was once a lunatic asylum. The janitor is creepy too, there seem to be quite a few of those in horror films! How the doctor manages to come back from the dead to kill is not explained but his mannerisms and the dreamlike death scenes are obviously similar to A Nightmare on Elm St movies, only nowhere near as good. Acting is reasonable enough & we do get some gory kills, Scream queen Lin Shaye makes an appearance but only for a few lines. This supernatural slasher is not a bad movie but neither is it a good one. I picked it up very cheap on DVD so have no complaints, though I doubt that I'd want to watch it again.

I like horror movies, i enjoy it, but this... wow! it's too bad!honestly, i expect much more when I see the name, and the movie poster. I like the nice Sarah Roemer... so, i decided to watch itBut it so awful. The Script, the Acting... The Doctor is like a Joke, it don't scare anyone...I exoect a lot of horror. An asylum is too scary, i like it. It would be use to do a good movie, like Grave Encounters.All the story have a kind of nonsense...i don't know... it's bad..too bad.so, i think this an '80s movie in the XXI Century... AWFUL

This movie is so bad, where do I even begin?OK, so the beginning grabs the audience. Good lead in scene setting up the main character's tragic past. But it all goes downhill as soon as her father shoots himself and his body *flies forward.* That doesn't happen when someone shoots themselves. If they were reaching for realism, they missed it by miles.The movie fast forwards to the future where *coincidentally!* her brother shoots himself too. Wow! What are the odds that both her father and her brother commit suicide and were also crazy? Once again we have a plausibility fail. But it doesn't end there. Like other reviewers have noted; this movie is a lot like the Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Except, Nightmare on Elm Street was at least original for it's time. Now the formula is just sad. The mid-90s to early 2000s brought us the promise of evolved horror movies (Scream, Idle Hands, Final Destination, Blair Witch, etc), a chance for Americans to get away from the rinse-lather-repeat scripts of the eighties. So what happened here?It's almost cliché to call this movie cliché; but what else do we call it? It fits. I suppose "unoriginal" comes to mind, along with a handful of other unpleasant words but I'm trying to keep this review concise. This movie is what Lady Gaga is to Madonna; recycled ideas adding nothing new, and just more shock value in an attempt to amp up what amounts to a very poorly written and executed script. Yes, the lighting is OK. The set was fine. The special affects were bearable. But it doesn't matter, does it, when the entire thing is too painfully stupid to sit through.None of the characters were even remotely likable, despite the fact that the writers tried to make the audience feel empathy by giving each of them a sob story. Madison was sort of likable for a while, but even her whiny self-loathing martyrdom drained dry any chance the audience would give a crap that she wins in the end. Oh great, she lives. There could be a sequel where we can see her once again sulking around in self pity. Hooray? The guys all act like overbearing, unjustifiably aggressive dolts; and the only one interesting enough to watch was killed off early. I liked String. He was the only one who seemed to have a reason for being in the movie. Ironically he was the first one to go. The writer must be masochistic.The female characters were two dimensional stereotypes. We see Ivy, the blonde who for some reason must be promiscuous; ready to ride anything that acknowledges her existence. Then we have the saucy Latina who is standoffish and tough; I suppose the writers were paying tribute to Degrassi High - in a bad way. It doesn't help that the movie uses rape and sexual abuse as a cheap plot device to titillate the psychopaths in the audience. This is called sexism.I really wish writers would get a clue - intimidating and terrorizing half the audience with oppressive ideology does not a horror movie make. If you can't be original or imaginative, then don't even bother. There's a reason why movies like this get bad reviews, and it's not because people are "sheeple" either. It's because movies like this insult people with reasonable intelligence, a modicum of self-respect and basic human decency. Movie companies who produce crap like this for $$$ deserve every bad review they get.So, in closing, this movie is yet another addition to the mountainous pile of crap already out there. If you're looking for mind numbing, implausible, eighties rewind trash - by all means knock yourself out. Otherwise, best to give this a pass.

There are many inconsistencies in this film. For example, Dr. Burke chases Madison and Holt from the asylum during the night to an old factory where is day! They say that Dr. Burke was killed in 1939 when Mackey was 11... As the story comes in 2007, Mackey should be 79! In the movie looks like 50! There is not a real connection between the drama of Madison and her family with a madness syndrome and two suicides with the drama of Dr. Burke. You imagine that the suicide of Madison's brother in the same asylum would have any connection with Dr. Burke, but no... This drama is never resolved. The college ambassador is a very disturbing character and he never faces Dr. Burke, as well as the police, as well as the many other resident students at the place that disappear completely from the last scenes as the main characters were alone in the place... Very poor film.