Suspenseful. Quite a few "jump" moments. Well shot. Excellent soundtrack that added nicely to the ambiance of the film. No excessive retardation on the part of the characters that can often sidetrack a horror movie. This all the good.
The problem is that at points it REALLY drags, including about a 20 minute crawling scene that almost had me falling asleep. Also, and this may sound like a nitpick, but there is never really any clear reason why the baddies are doing what they're doing. We never get the slightest bit of insight into them as characters. They sort of just appear, disappear, hunt, haunt and terrorize.
The leads are given a nice story and humanized nicely but something was missing because i still didn't really care if they lived or died. The mood of the film was a bit dreary, which is nice, but so were the characters and that's a slight misstep by the film makers.
I do appreciate the effort put into this one as it was clear they were going for more than your usual slasher movie, trying to combine good drama and horror but they just didn't mix the 2 all that well and it sort of drug both angles down.
Still, a real nice setup and some good suspense but a rather lackluster finish. I'd slightly recommend this.
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