A barely adequate mix of a great many genre horror films that have come before it.

Writing: Perhaps it’s just the fact that there have been so many remakes of the overpopulated Japanese horror genre, that nobody fairly judges these films on their own merits any more. If this were the first one that had been made, would I be so unimpressed with it? Probably not quite as much. Even still, this isn’t one of the strongest of said tired genre. It has a few interesting little hooks into the genre and new ideas, but they are pretty far and few between.

Production: This is an amazingly average production. I don’t think I recall a singal thing worth mentioning, either good or bad. This is as genre standard as they come.

Cast: Shannyn Sossamon is a talented actress, and she does seem to at least try to make things work. It’s not an extraordinary effort, mind you, but she makes it work. Ed Burns does much the same as her, making his character work well enough without any truly remarkable aspects. Ray Wise is well cast as a reality TV producer, though his character is bizarrely sidelined with little-to-nothing to do with anytihng when all is said and done. The best bit of casting is giving one of the supporting roles to the fantastic Azura Skye. Her quirky originality automatically brings something to the best friend role, helping make things work a bit better.

Music: Reinhold Heil and Johnny Klimek could score this movie in their sleep. And they kinda do. Nothing to really make much note of (sorry for the pun). Like most everything in this film, it’s nothing particularly bad. It just there, doing its job.

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