I agree with almost everything that’s been said, with the caveat that I cared less about seeing the people, than I did with figuring out just what in the hell they were trying to accomplish. Are we to believe…SPOILERS AHEAD, NATURALLY…that it’s just some random thing? Some perverse exercise?

I nearly guessed as much early on, when it became clear that they were standing around and not going right after Tyler or Speedman. I thought “either the movie is trying to scare us and doesn’t care how unrealistic it has to be to do it, or the masked people are deliberately going out of their way to scare them before they’re killed.” I guess it’s the latter. I assume giving it no purpose is supposed to make it scarier, because then it can happen to anyone…but still. That kinda thing irks me in the same way the unrevealed faces seems to irk almost everyone else.

Also, a lot of dumb luck with their friend wandering in and NOT calling out; which would never happen in the middle of the night. If he doesn’t do that, Tyler and Speedman just stay holed up in that room and probably survive the whole thing just fine.

Gotta give them credit (wow, I’m all over the place here, huh?) for the actual killings, too. Really unsettling in their simplicity. Possibly disturbing to the point where I wasn’t scared, but actively disliked it. I don’t know if that’s a plus or a minus.

Meh. Very creepy film, really got under my skin, but very unsatisfying at the end. Gotta give it all kinds of props for restraint and simplicity, but I think the skill that went into it merited a better story.

That was the most awesome thing I’ve ever typed.

Oh well, at least I officially live in Herndon now (well, I will on Saturday) so I can finally have a big cinema and maybe see some of these fancy movies that you city folk watch.

Although, I guess I’m the only one who thought Quarantine looked semi-decent. I guess cause of the lack of seeing REC and knowing it was a remake. I just thought the female zombie in the movie looked pretty bad-ass. I’ll have to check out REC.

you know, i left the theatre when that trailer came on, specifically to avoid having [REC] ruined for me.

and now i know Jennifer Carpenter dies in it. thanks, man.

oh wait… Jennifer Carpenter isn’t in [REC]… looks like i’m still good.

By the way, they had a trailer for a movie called Quarantine; looked like Cloverfield meets zombies. It had Jennifer Carpenter (Exorcism of Emily Rose, and Dexter’s sister in Dexter) but she dies in it at the end. Have you heard anything on that?