this movie was kickass!

The characters are underdeveloped and unlikable. All you know about Heather is that she hates her mother and recently set fire to the house. The next best developed characters are her parents; her mother is a self-absorbed bitch who's more interested in entertaining her guests than she is the well-being of her own child, and her father is a pushover. You don't learn anything else about them or anyone else at the school. The only person I felt anything for was Marcy, and that was pity. "Fire crotch" didn't make me hate Ann, it made me roll my eyes and laugh.

The story is extremely underwhelming. It feels rushed and incomplete, like it's half a movie that's been severely cut from a much longer running time. The atmosphere created is almost non-existent, a few whispers from the forest and rumors/stories about the teachers don't do anything. Random sights of levitation and magical abilities to balance rocks don't inspire or create awe, nor do leaves on a bed.

Excluding Bruce Campbell, it felt like everyone else was just going through the motions. Emotionless deliveries, courtesy of the Ben Stein School of Acting. They may as well have been cardboard cutouts.

I liked it