The haters wouldn't know greatness if it bit them in the ass.
This film was terrific. In much the same way that if people has saw "ringu" before seeing "The Ring" they would have dismissed it or hated it, there is enough talent and inspiration in this movie to keep hollywood copycats busy for a long time.
Take the casting, there are a grand total of five people in the movie. There is no conventional plot conflict and resolution. No madmen taunting people only to be revealed as someone you met in the first scene.
No fright music to make people jump in their seats. You don't know what's going to happen, what direction the film is going, what direction it's going to take. In order to watch this film you have to be prepared for anything. Because it doesn't follow a formula or try and exist inside a genre. By loosing the trappings of a horror movie it is truly free to exist inside the bounds of your imagination.
I found myself wondering if it was going to go in a zombie direction. Would our white eyed newly risen lab subject decide after the third death that brains should be on the menu? Or would the actual act of being dead and being alive, cause problems that would be unexpected in a horror film about the dead?
What happens when that zombie that you bring back slowly goes insane as his nervous system breaks down?
How would you cope with the knowledge that you feel dead inside, you can't feel anything at all and you can't die. To know that you will exist forever, without even the feeling of a chill? Numb to the world in a way that a human mind is not equiped to deal with?
They make a mention of lewis and clark going out into the unknown, making the map up as they go. And in a real way that is a metaphor for this brilliant film. It is creepy, disturbing, and it lingers in your mind, all for the right reasons. It is something new.
If I was going to compare it to something I would compare it to Cube. That was a nother modern horror movie that went in a new direction and tried something new and brilliant.
To the people who liked this movie, it is one of the greats.
To the people that hated it....They didn't make this movie for you so go blow M. Shalam.
Kodack