It was so bad.
I caught this on tv the other night and I was intrigued.. Ghosts? water? Ooh. and then I was just dumbstruck about how awful it was. I figured out the killer pretty much the minute he came onscreen and the logic! the logic! Where was the logic??
I'm going to pick holes in it now.. so spoilers ahead.
-Old woman in the barn. I understand the director wants to create suspense but umm.. couldn't the old woman have met said heroine in a coffee shop??! in a restaurant?? Or hell, even in daylight?? But no, creepy old woman wants to meet stupid heroine in a dark barn at four in the morning.. to give her letters. Oookay. You couldn't have waited til morning?
- Snobby girl and snobby boy somehow manage to deposit a foetus in the sink, covered in bits of a broken jar and smear lipstick all over the wall while the heroine showers with her back towards them. Right. I realise the heroine was a bit mentally incapacitated but she wasn't deaf, or maybe the shower was so loud that she couldn't hear them smashing the jar with the baby in it. Oh okay fine, they smashed the jar in the science lab and carried the shards of glass in with their hands, I hope they didn't get any cuts. [I don't even want to talk about the timing of her shower :groan:]
-Her brother was being a bit random about the killings don't you think? Blondie roommate was her only friend and the motive? Umm... revenge. Thats right. Go with that. The heroine and the janitor? Yepp... revenge..on miscellaneous people who attend the school. You're ugly! So you're next!
- The amazing lung capacity of the killer, that guy swam underwater to the boat and then proceeded to stay down there to stalk her. I tip my hat off to you. You're not a man, you're a mer-man. A mer-man with a concussion.
-The end sign. Shut.up. please. They were in a crowd of a hundred thousand people, and how likely was it that she was going to spot a teeny weeny sign in the middle of a protest, in fact how likely is it that the murderer was carrying the damn thing around in hopes she'd spot it? What would have happened if she hadn't? That would be a waste of trying to psych her out "Oh boy! I hope she saw it!"
-There are at least a dozen places in this movie where I yelled at the heroine for acting like such a moron. Sigh. Cases in point.
- When you're trying to hide away from the killer, don't lean against
a glass pane where he can see you. Just because you can't see him,
stupid, it doesn't mean he can't see you. And for the record its
fricking GLASS, the point of glass is its transparency.
-When you're trying to run/hide away from a killer, don't make so
much noise, don't yell or bang or make stomping noises with your shoe
That is how killers find their victims.
-You live in a dormitory, stupid. Hide under a bed. There must be at
least fifty beds or closets [or even classrooms]for you to hide in
or under, unless of course your killer is a robot and can scan you
out [which is pretty damn unlikely]. Its not a house, its a
dormitory, don't tell me you can't find somewhere to hide. It'd
actually be more safer than clomping around and yelling.
-Your friend fell down a hole so you climbed down to be with her, you
sat there and waited until DAWN to find a way out and only uhhh..
decided to get out when somebody thought it would be good to kill
you. Talk about unmotivated. That great big chunky hole in the wall?
You didn't notice that as you sat there for hours? Hmm.
- Don't take a freaking power nap in a boat. Turn the boat on and
get out. If you're stupid enough to NAP after you've been chased all
night and are still being chased, seriously? you deserve to die.
That was one God-awful movie. And I don't even think I've picked enough holes in it. Gleuuh.