How do movies like this even get made? The only reason I don't give this a 1 is to save some "crawlspace" in the unlikely event that an even worse stinker comes along one day, but honestly right now I find that somewhat difficult to imagine.
So this PG-13 horror flick, after a "bad dream" opening sequence, starts its "plot" with a babysitter on the phone with a girlfriend, hearing some rumbling in the house and a strange voice on the baby monitor. At that point, I jokingly said to my company that at least now we know that the makers of this movie are not afraid of clichés, as indeed they are not. The entire friggin' movie is a badly jumbled-together concoction of clichés, every single one of which has been done better in a movie that made a thousand times more sense. Not that that says much, as this movie does not really make any sense at all, and it does not even seem that it tries to. At best it is involuntarily funny, but in an annoying way.
The acting is amateurish, I don't know what Oldman thought when he signed on to this project. This is easily his worst movie, and remember that includes Air Force One. If Yustman were an actress, her good looks might be counted as a redeeming feature of movie, but unfortunately she has no idea what she is doing, and makes you cringe every time she appears on the screen. Which is quite a lot of times, clearly the film makers were well aware of their strongest asset in making this piece of cinematic garbage.
I was trying come up with a demographic that I could recommend this movie to, but failed. Reading some of the other reviews, however, it would appear that I am merely lacking imagination, since at least some seem to have enjoyed this opus. Beats me.
So this PG-13 horror flick, after a "bad dream" opening sequence, starts its "plot" with a babysitter on the phone with a girlfriend, hearing some rumbling in the house and a strange voice on the baby monitor. At that point, I jokingly said to my company that at least now we know that the makers of this movie are not afraid of clichés, as indeed they are not. The entire friggin' movie is a badly jumbled-together concoction of clichés, every single one of which has been done better in a movie that made a thousand times more sense. Not that that says much, as this movie does not really make any sense at all, and it does not even seem that it tries to. At best it is involuntarily funny, but in an annoying way.
The acting is amateurish, I don't know what Oldman thought when he signed on to this project. This is easily his worst movie, and remember that includes Air Force One. If Yustman were an actress, her good looks might be counted as a redeeming feature of movie, but unfortunately she has no idea what she is doing, and makes you cringe every time she appears on the screen. Which is quite a lot of times, clearly the film makers were well aware of their strongest asset in making this piece of cinematic garbage.
I was trying come up with a demographic that I could recommend this movie to, but failed. Reading some of the other reviews, however, it would appear that I am merely lacking imagination, since at least some seem to have enjoyed this opus. Beats me.