This was just a really bad movie **SPOILERS**
DVR'd this awhile ago off of cable because I enjoy good horror stories and this sounded interesting. Finally got around to watching it last night and for the life of me I can't explain why I actually sat through the entire awful mess. I guess I kept thinking that it would get better, or at least redeem itself with a big ending. No such luck.
Here are just some of the reasons why it sucked;
The acting, across the board, was just atrocious, at times it was actually painful to watch, you probably could have pulled a bunch of people off the street and they would have done a better job.
The CGI was laughingly bad, when the jogging coed is killed it almost looked like a cartoon, like bad animation. And on that note, if you're going to have a role in which the actor will need to jog how about hiring someone who has actually run more than two feet in their life. This woman ran like she was in an old Benny Hill skit. Her inability to run convincingly was exceeded only by her inability to act convincingly.
Still on the CGI; when the little girl ghost, and where the hell did she come from by the way, the box was supposed to contain the ghost of Katie Malone, not her little barn friend too, but suddenly there she is, with no explanation at all...anyway, when she disolved the *beep* boyfriend in the street it again looked like a cartoon, like bad animation. And how out of character was it for this guy to suddenly be so concerned about a little girl after acting like a complete ass at his girlfriends house??
And then there's your basic stupid, inplausable crap;
Numerous students and one teacher either maim themselves, die, or just disappear and never once do you see a cop, not once.
The main character is just about to get busy with the main female character when the ghost shows up and kills the mood for him while she's in the bathroom. So instead of explaining this to her, and she believed in the ghost before he did, he lets her kick him out of her room while he doesn't say a word but just stands there with a stupid look on his face.
Dean Cain's daughter suddenly appears in the movie and wants to buy the box back. We're supposed to believe that she wants the box that killed her mother because she looks goth and....what?? I guess just because she looks goth...
All three main characters take forever to decided that hey, maybe we should get rid of this haunted box that KEEPS KILLING PEOPLE!!!
There's more but why bother, if you haven't seen this movie...why would you read a thread marked spoilers?...but if you haven't then don't, the time would be better spent sitting in a room staring at a wall.
On the postive side;
Masiela Lusha is drop dead gorgeous...thats about it...