Sadly Over-hyped

Awesome Movie

Absolutely Fantastic

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

I am going to go out on a limb and give this film 4 1/2 *'s for originality and the story line. Yes, there are what some would call "cheesy" special effects but I believe they were done on purpose having nothing to do with budget. Most of the movie the characters are in a dream state and if you have ever had a dream the effects are cheesy, aren't they?! Anyway, in this film it is the story that is important here not the special effects. And nor does this movie have big stars,although Edward Furlong was well know from the Terminator movie, they are just actors that have all brought something to the table here.I personally liked the film. I also liked the music. It is a film that has to be watched in its entirety or you may miss something!.

Ha ha - interesting to read the reviews on this, because it is a love/hate experience.First up I'm in a barren location presented as real. Then the weird landlady lays some foreboding on me (I strain to hear her poorly recorded lines), and suddenly I'm thinking I've actually died and me watching this film is a version of Hell.Then I'm in an apocalypse, the end of days. Then a smoky creature chases me. Then I figure maybe it's all my fault, and the landlady lays some mystical exposition on me and I wake up and save myself.It does all tie up in the end, and it is quite touching. The final shot in the morgue made me suspect there's some real experience behind this concept.Apart from the landlady the actors don't create much of an impression. Can't remember when I've seen both leads being overweight. The editing is a bit crunchy, with some scenes stitched (!) together too tight and various little non sequiturs. No need to comment on the special effects.At one point it reminded me of Coherence, which also used the idea of parallel lives. But this has a different take, although I don't think it's really a horror either because there's no external agent.Overall if exposition is needed in the end it's a fail, but then most of us don't want to spend days figuring out the brilliance of another David Lynch nightmare.ps. I wonder if the eclipse image is a deliberate reference to Ringu?

I found this movie to be surprisingly deep. Not the same old horror thing at all. The rating should be higher but I guess IMDb skews to a younger demographic.I won't give away any major spoilers. But if you really look closely at the last 30 minutes, you find that the movie you thought you were watching is really something else. It's all about how people can go through their waking lives in depression, while part of their minds (the subconscious) wrestles with inner demons. What we see on screen during most of movie is really that subconscious dream - people fighting literal demons. Their "real" lives are only revealed at the end. And by the end, they are cured of their depression from the hellish dream - yet they barely remember the dream at all.At least that much seemed clear to me.It's kind of like how you might go to bed feeling really bad. But then you wake up in the morning feeling fully refreshed. You remember having some kind of dream that night and maybe that dream was responsible for curing your bad feelings. But you can barely remember the dream.We have also all heard stories of people living with mental illness their whole lives and then one day - poof! They are cured. And they don't even know how or why. Was part of their mind busy working things out on a different plane of reality?

I actually got to see this movie at an early screening earlier this week. I would like to start by saying that I LOved the idea about what the movie was about. Two parents who have lost their daughter are taken to a house in the middle of nowhere with the advice from their 2 friends to perform a ritual that is supposed to make them forget about the pain of losing their daughter. Like most horror movies things start happening and it gets creepy real fast. The premise of the story is fine but the actors are probably the worst actors I have ever seen in my life. Remember Eddie furlong who played john Connor in terminator 2? Well he sucks big time in this movie. My question is how do these actors actually make it past auditions? With all that said its a decent movie but the actors really kill it. Had there had been better actors I think the movie would have been a better experience for me.