I think movies like this are the reason why my dad thinks horror movies are schlock made for teenagers.
I just don’t buy this entire the set-up, I think it’s incredibly lame and stupid. A lot of the tension building is achieved by throwing in this annoying, overbearing background music when nothing’s actually happening. All of the characters are flat and devoid of personality, they don’t even pretend to do the effort by making everyone a single quirk stereotype (like an 80s horror movie). The dialogue and character motivations are also really weird. Whiny, teenage angst was the name of the game in the year 2000 (in particular in pop culture), and some of the characters in this movie capture that very well, but sometimes it’s heightened to a degree where it becomes comical. The only thing that’s more comical are some of the death scenes, some of which are so grotesque and far fetched that you can’t help but laugh at it. The camerawork is adequate, but unspecial. I really could’ve done without the constant flashes and lightning, it felt a little over the top after a while. The only thing that’s surprisingly solid given the kind of movie that it is, is the acting.

3/10