A spare, creepily atmospheric ominous thriller with a death grip on the psychological aspects, Bryan Bertino’s brilliantly suspenseful directorial debut is enormously unsettling. Returning late from a wedding reception, Kristen and James pull into his family’s South Carolina lake house for what was supposed to be a romantic night. But she's just turned down his marriage proposal. Their fragile relationship in the light of her refusal heightens their vulnerability later when a strange girl pounds on the door at 4 o’clock in the morning asking for someone who clearly doesn't live there. Slowly and steadily, the situation escalates: a few more knocks on the door, some disturbances from inside, and finally, the appearance of masked figures emerging from the shadows. The couple’s worst nightmare has just begun… An all-too effective nerve-jangler, with stars Scott Speedman and Liv Tyler credibly registering every nuance of panic, intense horror doesn’t get much scarier.
Latest customer reviews (from a total of 34 reviews):
Jumpy
Reviewer: FilmFanaticFishman
Date: 09/10/2008
Such a simple old fashioned horror, but i was more than glued to the screen at my odeon. I went ti see this and me and mr friend loved it... its very jumpy and very surprising... edge-of-your-seat film!
Loved it and freaked me out
Reviewer: BrightGirl
Date: 30/09/2008
me and my fiance went to see This film. He really didn’t want to go out and I dragged him along to the cinema and within 10 minutes of the film being on he was hooked! It’s a really good film and its very jumpy in parts! As its based on a true story it makes the film a bit more interesting. The film is more jumpy than bloody but I would defiantly recommend it to everyone! We both loved it and my partner said it’s the best film he's seen in ages!!
Compared to Eden Lake and even on its own this was a very disappointing film that could have been better. It was badly acted in places particularly with Liv Tyler making me think that horror films dosen't suit her star personna. With this bad acting made what was actually happening less belivable and scary and there was no reason why these 'strangers' were stalking the characters apart from the end with one brief clue. The characters were unintelligent as they didn't even try to escape. You would have thought that would have some basic intelligence and all in all the film was rather predictable as there was only a few moments that made me jump out and i mean a few. Another terrible thing about this dismal film is that it was too slow to start, it took about half hour for anything of real interest to happen and even when it did it wasn't that fulfilling The only thing i would say that saved this film from being a total disaster was some of the acting was okay in parts and the handheld camera work was effective in the setting of the film but with all the other things that were fragmented, the handheld camera work was only as half effective. If you want to see a good horror film see Eden Lake not this rubbish.
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