What an overrated movie!

This movie has a 5.1 rating at the time of my writing, which seems fairly appropriate. It's not the most original story(complete Pet Semetary rip off), but it still remained fairly compelling. I think it just goes to show you how important expectations can be. If I had seen a 7.1 rating, I would have been disappointed with the movie too. I saw a 5.1 rating beforehand, so for me it turned out better than I expected.

If a movie is intended to keep you entertained for an hour or so then this movie managed to do that in my opinion. Yes, it could have been better, but if the person above who thought this was the worse movie ever is going to be taken seriously at any point from now on they need to get out more and watch some more stuff. By no description could this be said to be the "worse movie ever" and I thought the acting throughout was pretty good, even the child actor did a reasonable job. Okay, there were so bits that irritated such as the car conking out for no reason, the torch cutting out, "shake it man" and some of the characters were a bit naff but for a low budget "Hammer" film it serves its purpose.

"...and raised a few too many questions."

That's what really annoyed me. Did they actually explain anything in this movie? Why did the daughter (a supposed animal-lover) start slaughtering animals? Why did she not kill the dog (you'd think that if she had something against an animal it would be a dog, sense she was killed by one)? Was it really their daughter that was resurrected and had just gone bad somehow or did someone else inhabit her body? What was with the close up of the surgical tools at the end?

These are all questions that may have actually been answered, but it's impossible to tell because the director seemed to have told his actors to whisper as quietly and incoherently as possible. That's really what killed the movie for me; the fact that I had to crank the volume all the way up in the hopes of maybe hearing a word or two, or, if I was really lucky, maybe even half a sentence, before having to quickly turn in all the way down once the music started ('cause while the dialog is barely whispered in this flick, the music is cranked up at a volume that can disintegrate water). So have a feeling that maybe they're aren't as many plot-holes as we think; all the questions may have been answered, WE JUST CAN'T TELL WHAT THE *beep* ANYONE IS SAYING!

Ok, sorry my bad. Not the worst movie I've ever seen, but one among the worst. After 1 hour I turned the *beep* off! *beep* piece of *beep* movie!

Trailer Park Boys is the best series ever made.

Agreed. Crappy movie all-around. But the worst part of it for me was the music. Music and sound help immensely with building tension. The music they through at this thing is more suited for an American Beauty type movie, not a horror. Awful.

2/10

I liked the part where the bull finished the guy. That scene was a cool one.

I missed the beginning last week and am watching it "from scratch" now. It intrigued me last week and for me, it's worthwhile getting to know the entire story. Agree there are plot-holes, and the way in which Alice manifests the wrongness isn't the way I would have chosen, specifically because I don't receive this as a horror story. It's a bargain story, like the ones about the human who visits fairy land, breaks a rule and has to pay. The rules are arbitrary to us, but there are reasons.

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The one-year limit makes sense to me because its a complete revolution of the earth around the sun, making a sort of closing of windows. It's a sort of gestation period.

The physical boundary of Wake Wood didn't bother me either. That's where the life-giving energy of Wake Wood ends. Out of bounds of the magic circle, so to speak, things don't last.

Timothy Spall's character explained the three-day limit. I buy it the way I buy the Beast telling Beauty she can only visit her family for a certain length of time. I'm assuming that after three days, the body gives out and the revived person dies. Around the end of the three days, the body begins to give out, as the "niece"'s body was doing in the pharmacy.

There's awareness after death: the "niece" tells Louise that Alice has a lovely voice so we're prepared for Louise talking to Patrick at the end about Alice; and it allows me to buy Louise's pregnancy.

I believe that hair continues to grow on a corpse?

Alice, for me, is not a monster. She's a child who was brought back wrong; she becomes aware that she died; she doesn't want to go back and be alone "in the ground". It's the fact of her being brought back past her due date that makes things go wrong. I feel the killings is a kind of degeneration on the writer's part, and taking the easy way out. I'm not sure what I would have done, but I was sorry when the killings started. Alice grabbing mommy at the end made sense to me, however.

Anyway. I'm liking it as I write and watch; I know what's coming and it's not spoiling it for me. Maybe I'm just "easy".