GamerTab That was an excellent one.

JinRoz For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

adonis98-743-186503 A sheriff investigating the disappearance of a young girl from a small island discovers there's a larger mystery to solve among the island's secretive, neo-pagan community. Packed with a terrible perfomance from Nicolas Cage in the main role, ridiculous lines and an ending that has more facepalms than anything this remake is a waste of time, talent and most of all money. (0/10)

GL84 Haunted by a tragic accident, a policeman is called out to an isolated island community to search for a missing child only for the habitants' strange rituals and ceremonies to infuriate him which causes him to discover what the real reason was for the ceremony.This has a few considerable flaws going for it. One of the main issues is that there's a problem with the way the investigation is handled which is a huge factor due to the majority of the time this spends on the investigation. Since the film relies on the fact that everything around him is lying and he's being deceived quite obviously, this one goes for the society seemingly playing games with him from the start even if they appear to be trying to help him for the first half here. At the very end, he starts going around and throwing his weight around to make up for all the lies that were told to him which really seems like an act which should've been done sooner, especially after the reception received. It might've worked better and had better results if he had done something sooner rather than let the investigation get that way. This one carries on a joke far too long and really drags this out. Another pretty big flaw is that there are no real surprises to be had from this since it plays out exactly as it originally did, and all the surprises and fun to be had from that one are gone because it is so familiar. Even the plot twist doesn't surprise, which is the greatest flaw in here as the film is built up to a twist out of nowhere that has none of the fear and dread featured in the original, effectively ruining all the momentum it would've had going into it the same. Even the tagged-on epilogue is a failure, as the movie should've ended with the twist rather than the lame gag given here which manages to end this on an even more sour note. There's even way too much insistence on jump- cuts, and while there's some visual impact or shock effect they're a really irritating distraction. There's so many that it can become blasé which is deadening because there's too many of them. Alongside some truly cheesy and silly set-pieces, there are some really big holes as this gets very little right. One of them is that the opening really works for the film as the everyday normality it opens to is expertly shattered with a brutal and shocking crash, and the eventual race before the fire burns everything is handled with some nice suspense. The search at times can be quite fun, as there are some really good scenes in here that are derived from that, especially the sequence where he gets stuck in the underground cavern or the room covered with bees. It gets considerably more active and intense towards the end after the changeover to their celebrations as the revelry and costumes makes for quite a fun, cheesy time. These, though, constitute the film's only good points.Rated PG-13: Language and Violence.

loveagoodstory A painful attitude of many big studios is that tried material is trusted material and prime for turning into a revenue stream...sorry, an exciting new take on a story the director/write/lead just loved as a kid.Part of the reason the original worked was because the story isn't a horror story, it's a suspense story. Unfortunately, this film tries to use the modern horror style and it falls flat. Nicolas Cage delivers a Nicolas Cage performance but it's not suited to the pace of the story. The cast do their best with what they're given but the fault lies in the tone. Avoid, watch the original.

Leofwine_draca The most immediate and obvious word I'd use to describe this film is 'redundant'. I mean, after all, who would remake one of the best remembered British horror films of all time, considered by many to be the BEST of a varied bunch? It's not a film that has dated in any way and power still emanates from the screen as we watch Edward Woodward explore his doomed struggle. From the opening sequence in this film, a set-piece involving an exploding car, I knew it was going to be way off the ball.American films by Hollywood standards are bombastic, noisy, and clichéd. Producers love to give audiences what they want and expect, which is why there's little in the way of originality. Attempts to anywhere-near match the icy chills of the Robin Hardy classic were bound to be doomed from the start, but the makers of this weren't expecting to turn out one of the most derided films of recent years. It's really a combination of bad luck: we get Nicolas Cage having an off day, giving one of his worst, most over the top (in a bad way) performances. There's a script that flits between intense boredom and ludicrous scenes (Cage battling and beating up old women at the climax), a story utterly diluted of horror.Some poor acting from a frankly unbelievable supporting cast (Ellen Burstyn fairly laughable in the Christopher Lee role, the cute Leelee Sobieski utterly miscast as a villainess, and only Kate Beahan's good looks saving her from a similar fate), and frankly pretentious direction from Neil LaBute. All the interesting scenes are shot-for-shot in the original, and merely play out with a sense of déjà vu here. Instead of the gut-churning horror of the original's climax, viewers will just be itching to turn this one off as the credits roll. A real sorry state of a film.