The formula of the movie itself breaks down like this...30 seconds to 1 minute of decent horror movie related stuff, then 15 to 20 minutes of exposition. The storyline is interesting enough, but not nearly interesting enough to justify all of this talky talky. It gets a bit heavy at times, and always feels just a little too familiar.
The acting and dialogue is mediocre at best. These movies must be ridiculously easy to write. Some of the "jokes" are beyond lame, and yet they always seemed to get a laugh, no matter how eye rolling they were. The movie also can't get away with any gore with its PG-13 rating so don't go in expecting much there. There are a couple gruesome moments but nothing My Bloody Valentine won't fucking demolish.
On the subject of being PG-13, I think every studio head who is behind a PG-13 horror movie should go and watch them opening night with a public audience. That way they can see the annoying 13 year old girls that come and watch these things. Then they can realize "wow this is really fucking annoying, let's up the rating on these suckers from now on and never put anyone through this shit again." It's ridiculous. The screaming is fine, it's the ensuing 2 minutes of talking and laughing about how they just screamed that does it for me. There was even one of those classic "shut up" "you shut up" back and forths and the "you shut up" got the crowd laughing. WHAT THE FUCK!?
Crowd aside, it's a decent movie with a couple of awesome moments (spider walking backwards man for the win, that fucker should be in every movie ever) and way too much story telling. The main girl also has a great behind...so there's that.
6/10
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