2hotFeature
one of my absolute favorites!
Glucedee
It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.
Walter Sloane
Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.
IByte !
(This review probably doesn't contain any spoilers worth mentioning, though.)Well, let's see what we've got here...Take a few plot elements stolen from The Ring/Ringu, an incomprehensible story of a little girl who died due to some sort of medical condition or malpractice and now lives inside the wires of the internet looking to exact revenge on the doctor who now happens to run a website where you can watch people get killed (or was it the site that kills, or both?), a hint of fetish porn, a load of I-took-too-many-psychedelic-drugs special effects (well, "effects" is a big word, they're more like lots of flashes, shifting and blurring combined with a bunch of noise), a cop and a doctor trying to find out what in the world is going on, put them all in a blender, mix them up for a couple of minutes, and you've got something that resembles this movie.Did that make sense to you? No? Not surprising, given the fact that the plot of this movie is rather incomprehensible and flies off in every direction, a fact which the creators further try to obscure by means of the effects I mentioned earlier. I even have to wonder whether I explained this right, as the events are often rather disjointed. I added a spoiler flag for good measure to go with my attempt to explain a few of the plot twists, but I don't think it really matters. I kept wondering whether there was any way that the story could redeem itself, a bit like a train wreck from which you can't look away. In that sense this movie proves its own point somewhat, if there was any, and I suppose that will remain its only merit. However, by the time your reach the scene that is supposed to be the big showdown, where our hero saves the day by performing yet another nonsensical act, you've given up trying to explain all of this and just go "Yeah, whatever..."I suggest that if you do attempt to sit through this one, you find something else to do in the meantime, like a crossword puzzle or a Sudoku, because here's one movie that definitely does not deserve your undivided attention.
kirawolfcub
I saw this movie late one night where a friend and I decided to hold a bad movie night. In a way we got with we wanted. The scares are cheap and easy to guess, the actors all seem like they wish they could escape from it, and one of my biggest problems who the illness they decided to give the ghost girl Jean Marie. I will give hemophilia does make an interesting weakness for a person to have, but it's like that writers just heard of it and decided 'perfect! this is what we're gonna go with'. For starters it's a sexist submissive gene, meaning that woman are usually carriers where men are affected. You have to be super unlucky as a woman to get it. Second, they play it up to that Jean was just afraid of sharp things cause she could bleed to bleed id she cut herself. Hemophiliacs can bleed to death from bruises without their meds. So the fact that they claim she was tortured for hours is just crap.It was a movie with potential but it failed to deliver.
ParentTrap98
I caught this movie on Lifetime (my favorite channel along with WeTV) and I thought since it was on their (they have such good taste for REAL dramas) network that it must be great. Instead this movie offended me. For one this movie was so scary that I was afraid to get on my computer for days, much less the internet! When I was watching this I had to turn on all my lights! I don't like getting scared! Plus this was too internet themed! I think it is a bad idea exploiting women like this! The only reason I gave it a point five was because Lifetime has great taste. Maybe they saw something in this? I didn't. Anyways don't see this movie! It's too scary, and too internet themed!
the_patienceofjob
Roger Ebert: "...even now it is one of the most graphic horror films I've seen... If the final 20 minutes had been produced by a German impressionist in the 1920s, we'd be calling it a masterpiece... The last 20 minutes are, I might as well say it, brilliant. Not in terms of what happens, but in terms of how it happens, and how it looks as it happens. The movie has tended toward the monochromatic all along, but now it abandons all pretense of admitting the color spectrum, and slides into the kind of tinting used in silent films: Browns alternate with blues, mostly...". If you read all the Roger Ebert's review of the film, he noted that the special effects are so good that "this is one of the rare bad films you might actually want to see".
