This was not a typical teen slasher movie as I was expecting it to be, but it wasn’t very satisfying either. It seemed too familiar and too similar to a much better psychological thriller that came out about 10 years ago, called Jacob’s Ladder, where the main character struggles with figuring out the difference between reality and fantasy.
The young cast is nice to look at, with Wes Bentley giving a credible performance, and Eliza Dushku acting a bit like her Buffy the Vampire Slayer character, Faith, here. New girl Melissa Sagemiller, who reminds me a bit of Claire Danes, did a good job as the lead character, but I found the performances of Casey Affleck and Luke Wilson to be very wooden and unemotional.
I was probably disappointed with the movie because I figured it out pretty early, and because it was so similar to Jacob’s Ladder. I was also disappointed by the lack of tension throughout the story. For a scary thriller, the movie tended to relax too much inbetween the scary and tense moments, and when the scary moments did come, they weren’t a surprise at all.
