Critic Reviews

Maybe there will be an oversaturation of ''Scream''-inspired horror films someday soon, but this one feels fresh.

It's no worse than any number of other cookie-cutter slasher flicks geared for the slightly post-pubescent market.

The film is competently made, and the attractive cast emotes and screams energetically.

Like Frankenstein's monster before the lightning strikes, it's all recycled cold flesh and bolts, without a twitch of originality.

With each death, the film becomes less interesting. By the end, it's just a routine slasher flick with a too-predictable final "twist."

A premise so rock-solid, so guaranteed to please, that it almost doesn't matter that the movie is otherwise a routine slasher, and not a particularly scary one.

Fun if you like this kind of thing and don't expect too much of it.

Before long, however, the suspense becomes repetitious and predictable. In its denouement, the film breaks faith with its audience, violating credibility in an attempt to deliver a surprise villain.

Proficiently filmed and utterly uninspired.

Spottily directed and lacking the dubious merits of even the Friday the 13th franchise, this is one slasher film that should die a quick and lonely box-office death.