Memorable, crazy movie

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

The acting in this film is cringe worthy and the plot is nothing special. Also what is with the unnecessary 'bedroom' scenes and nudity in horror films recently? I could barely make it through to the end but I do not like leaving things unfinished.

This movie suffers from some really bad acting, as other reviews have suggested. I like to give anything a fair chance, but this doesn't do anything for me. Its concept is already a cliché -- young tourists go to a far away land and are subjected to a dark spirituality they have no understanding of, and then things go horribly wrong. I'm okay with this premise, but it's the complete lack of creativity here that ruins it all. On top of a cliché premise with nothing new to bring to the table, there's the also the major problem of deplorable acting from the two lead characters. Despite playing two young adults madly in love and on a vacation of their dreams, they act as if they're rehearsing a high school play. Their acting is plastic and constipated, with no feeling behind any of it. At no time do you feel anything for either of these two, and that's mostly what ruins this awful flicker show. Lesser issues are to do with there being no creativity. The cinematography is amateurish, with no good use of color, atmosphere, or anything to hold your attention. Because the movie is so dialogue-heavy, it makes the creative end stick out as painfully lackluster. The monster (or ghost) of this movie is also uninspiring and vanilla, and is perhaps made even more so by its overuse. The topping on this cake of crap are all of the jump scares; it's truly painful. In short, if you're a horror fan like me, there's absolutely nothing here that you haven't seen before. It's predictable, it's so very bland, it drags its feet like a zombie, and there isn't a single actor or actress who really shines. Get the idea? Yes, it's that bad. I love horror and I'm not quick to dismiss any movie, but this is a swing and a miss.Oh, and by the way, Asian elephants don't have tusks.

Saw this recently on a DVD. Found it to be lame n full of clichés. The film is about an American couple holidaying in Thailand who find themselves haunted by an evil spirit. This film has shades of Drag me to hell, a la the spirit will torture for three days n will consume after that. Well, the director of this film ain't no Raimi who did a terrific job with Drag me... Here the scares r annoying at times because its been done so many times. Pretty much everything is borrowed. The film does boast of some good cinematography. The Thai countryside has been shot very well. The place where the shaman lives is almost like the lair of Medusa from Clash of the titans n also similar to the castle of the wizard from Conan the destroyer. Situated in the middle of nowhere, the road/way to it is totally spooky with the mist n water surrounding it. But what do these shaman eat n what do they do without any amenities or other stuff? Personally, i have disliked most Asian horror scares i.e. scary girls with black hair, twisted bodies, disjointed movements, old witches, hollow faces, dark eyes, sudden jump scares n pop ups. Some of its effectiveness has been diluted by imitation. Demonic possessions premise has been done so many times that only die hard fans of the genre may enjoy this.

20 min into the movie and I was hoping ghosts kill everyone involved with this project, starting with producers, writers and director. I don't know what species they belong to, because the behavior that they are trying to describe trough characters is far from normal human behavior. Not even sure is it flawed acting or bad writing, but their actions and interactions just do not seem natural nor human. Poor acting all around, especially from Russell Geoffrey Banks, who sounds like he was prompted for every single syllable he said during the movie. Hard to keep a blind eye to so much lapses, even harder to swallow such degree of amateurism. Don't even bother.