Why, why, why?

Have to agree - the first 15 minutes were horrible (read: terrifying). I could barely stand to watch. That first train scene with the drawing - that premise would have made the most freaky, scary story.

But then it does turn into a more typical slasher. Still decent, but nothing matching the first part. (Except the one brief scene most of the way in with Sarah (religious girl), where the original images come into play, being equally freaky.)

It's almost as if the first part had nothing to do with the rest of the film!

First 15-20 min = 10/10.
Rest of the film 6/10.

i expected it to change but thought that when it did, the rest of the movie wouldnt live up to the start (like The Convent). but once the movie was done i thought it was incredible the whole way through. i didnt feel it was a typical slasher, and if it was then it was done much better than any other that come to mind. i think if the first 5 minutes was the whole movie, it would get old very fast and probbaly have to be a more slow paced/boring movie and maybe they didnt want that. i think it did relate with the rest of the movie, because it seems it all really WAS happening and thats the religous people werent just a bunch of crazies. so the drawings were real things from a higher being that these targets would normally just put off as if saying "oh come on thats not real, thats just stupid", which then comes back to attitude of the 2 main characters (boy,girl). there was a deleted scene showing them talking about horoscopes, and it shows off that mind set very well and i felt the beginning of that scene shouldve stayed in the movie.

Yup same here.
Loved the psychological "silent hill/Jacob's Ladder-ish" beginning and bits at the end, but was very disappointed with the rest of the movie... Also acting of most actors was really bad at times.

barely a 5 out of 10

Got to agree, the first 20 or so minutes were the best. Still I did enjoy the rest of it, and the idea that it was all orchestrated by demons to get us to kill each other so they could spawn in our place.

Anybody else notice that the cult members, especially those in the scenes outside, looked kinda like Hitler's SA?

The initial bit on the train where she looked at the picture and it was the same then got attacked was really good and got my hopes unrealistically high.

By the time we got to the Asian girl rocking out on the train i knew i was about to ruin another evening thanks to idiot recommendations from poxy horror websites.

The most annoying bit is that it could have been good, the concept was fine and some of the effects were decent.

If john Carpenter had made this film 20 years ago it would have probably been excellent.

But it wasn't The weapons the cult used looked so cheap they were laughable, the rapist guy went to the quentin Tarantino school of *beep* acting.

The should have been lots more people having visions of demons, lots less of the stupid cult people.

Unless you are a fan of really crap films (like gutterballs and that chicken one) then avoid

I agree that the first part of the movie was by far the best, and set up a false premise that the rest of the movie did not live up to.

Also agree they should remake their own movie, and this time have the rest of the movie stick to the original premise as shown in the first 5 minutes (or however long it was til the faceless monsters & teleporting monsters showed up).

The OP is spot-on with his analysis.

I gotta disagree completely. There was nothing wrong with the 90 degree turn from the creepy to survival horror (not a slasher flick at all - Hallowe'en is a slasher flick). A little abrupt, but it worked for me.

I also liked the fact that in the end, the apocalypse was real, and they didn't wuss out on that

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. - Anais Nin

if the train scene at the beginning freaked you out, check out the movie "suicide club", it's about 50 times as disturbing!