Disappointing

What a let down! Just a very average film with some bad camerawork and some inexplicably useless CGI effects. None of that "can you guess the next bit before the characters do" that the book had to offer is realised here. Oh and the ending is slightly different too.

This was just not as involving or as much fun as "Spirited Away". The story was a lot weaker even though it did hold my attention for about three-quarters of the film before I started to get a bit bored.

Without an ounce of originality, pathos or interesting story, what are we left with? A couple of good axe deaths and a waste of a couple of hours. It has some appallingly overpowering and unneccesary background music as well.

The rollercoaster stuff as the start was great. The death scenes throughout the film were well worked out and can really only be described as "Lush!" - but the rest of the movie stank! This was just not as good as the first or second "Final Destination".

It wasn't a classic and it was doomed from the start by having that wrestler guy in it instead of a real actor but the monsters were good, the stabs at characterisation mainly worked, and, even though we could have done with a few more monster battling scenes, I liked the idea of tjhe whole thing and the way the CGI was used in a good way this time.

I really wanted this to be good. Lots of claustrophic action and pretty women potholers menaced by CHUDs but alas it was not to be. I didn't care about any of the characters and just wanted them to be eaten as soon as possible. There are one or two good scenes but the acting is appalling and the plot runs out of steam once you've seen the first CHUD.

The biggest problem with this film was that it was very dark. It wasn't overly scary or dark in subject matter considering it was set half in the world of Welsh mythology and ghosties but it was filmed very darkly so it was hard to make a lot of it out. A second problem is that it's more than a bit slow and turgid. Although a couple of attempts are made at scary scenes, they just don't amount to anything.

Milla looked good in "Ultraviolet" but that's all that can be said in its favour as the fight scenes (and most of the characterisation and plot) were straight out of "Equilibrium". The CGI was overused to such an extent that it was all just like watching a dodgy, poorly scripted, X-Box game.

William H. Macy may have acted his bloodhound-face off in "Edmond" but that didn't save it from being one of the most unrealistic, ludicrous pieces of slow-moving, pretentious, twaddle that I have ever had the misfortune to watch.

This wasn't horror, it was barely fantasy, it was poorly filmed, badly acted and it didn't make any sense. This was, at its most basic, just a reworking of "Batteries Not Included" but without the feel good factor or cute little aliens. No wonder even Disney turned down this script.

The plot is as throwaway as the others in the series but the stunts almost make up for it. The trouble is that all you are really interested in is the car and, once you've seen it in action, it's all a bit of a one-joke act. It wasn't exactly brilliant but did have some good action scenes and an amusing cameo by Sylvester Stallone at the start.

Predictable, yes. Exciting, no. However, Michelle Owens does get to look quite sexy when she dresses as a hooker and the psychotic blond male vampire is unintentionally the closest thing to Anne Rice's Lestat possible.

It isn't very scary or memorable compared to the first two parts of the Omen trilogy. Sam Neill does a really good job as a fully grown Damien but there's just too much talk and not enough action. The ending, although necessary, really does suck.

This has none of the puerile humour of Jackass just a load of hit and miss self-mutilations which make you think "Idiots!" rather than laugh either at them or with them. None of this was remotely funny. It's not even daring anymore, just ridiculous.

Dracula was played quite well but not very scarily by Gerald Butler. In fact none of it was very scary at all which is a major problem for a "horror" movie! Dracula just isn't frightening anymore. Vampires are so comic book now that I think the chances of there ever being a really scary vampire film ever again are quite slim ...so it wasn't all the director's fault.

In a nutshell, this is a lot like Dean Koontz's "Black River" from five years ago. But a few added homages to the infamous Twilight Zone story "The Lottery" (based on the short story by Shirley Jackson), plus bits from "The Wicker Man" and "The Stepford Wives", all make this more of a mish-mash of better ideas than the story can really cope with. The detrimental effect is that more questions arise out of a simple plot than there needs to be and it just leaves too many holes.

Yes the movie looked just like the game but how, I ask you, is that a good thing? The game wasn't scary. The movie isn't scary. There was an atmosphere of complete dullness to the game which also translated exactly to the big screen. If I could give this negative marks I would. No wonder western civilisation is collapsing if this rubbish is thought of as entertainment.

I wasn't expecting much from this remake and so I wasn't disappointed in what I got out of it. As usual, it wasn't as good as the original. Adrienne Barbeau was far sexier as Stevie Wayne than Selma Blair... although I think Selma wins hands down on the wearing of disturbingly tiny pants in the vicinity of the child actor playing her son. It just seemed very wrong to me for some reason.

This tried so hard to be a French version of "The Others" that I almost expected Eric Sykes to join the Hattie Jacques-lookalike Russian school matron. It's beautiful shot but it should have been dubbed or subtitled. Allowing the original actors to use their own 'Allo, 'Allo style accents made the dialogue incomprehensible at times, and at those times when it was the most important.
Aside from the laconic dialogue, there are also very few bits of plot development that make any sense. The lead character is at first terrified of the "Scary Children" and then seems hell bent on summoning them for no reason at all. Similarly to "Creep", there are lots of clues to explain why things are as they are but nothing is fully explained. The conclusion just leaves the audience wondering what the hell they just watched. What was the point? Were any moral purposes served? Did any characters get what they deserved? What the hell was it about? I'm sure the director could put all those answers on the back of a postage stamp.

I usually like ghostie films but this was terrible. I don't know quite why but it just kept making me fall asleep. Perhaps it was because it was a joint venture between England and Spain (or maybe it was setting it on the Isle of Wight!) but I think the most likely reason was the overly slow pacing and Asian-style storyline that just bored me. Calista Flockhart was dull as ditchwater too.

If you pay close attention to the plot you will spot lots of holes which will make you even more angry when everything is revealed. So many things are not explained that you should probably never go back and watch it again as it just isn't a film which will hold up to that kind of scrutiny at all. The gore scenes are quite impressive though with gallons of blood spurting everywhere.

It's not quite as disappointing as the first "White Noise" but, apart from Nathan Fillion's strong performance, there still isn't much more to this than it being just another "Final Destination" in all but name. It also homaged quite a few other films in the same genre and, by so doing, was ridiculously predictable. The ending was really unsatisfying too.

Terribly slow and formulaic "kiddy friendly" thrillers don't come any worse than this but, then again, they generally don't come any better either. This is what happens when you dumb things down too much just for mass audience appeal. It might entertain you if your IQ is the same number as your age though. And, yes, that is the Irish bloke out of "28 Days Later" pretending to be an American in it.

Although the plot was just a mixture of "Brainscan" and "Ghost Game", this was still entertaining for the first half an hour or so. There wasn't very much in the way of gore though as it was obviously made to appeal to kids. Characterisation was minimal and there were no real scares either but it was filmed quite well. Some of the cuts between the game and reality were clever anyway. Even though I was mostly disappointed by this as a horror film, I really want the computer game that they were playing now.

A lawsuit which claimed that this was just a ripoff of "The Exorcist" put this out of circulation for a while. While it is precisely that, it's still quite enjoyable. Carol Speed does a good job as the possessed Abby but she's not quite in Linda Blair's league.

I'm sure the only reason this film is stil in existence is because Meg Ryan has one of her early roles in it. It is even more mean-spirited than the previous instalments and the death scenes really stretch credibility too far. The 3D effects were good at the time but they make watching it on TV now a bit of a mess. You end up just sitting there thinking, "I bet that bit looked good in 3D!". The rest of the effects are very lacklustre though as is the story itself.