BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

StyleSk8r At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Melissa Oaks Again, as i have said for other films, this is not entertainment unless you are a certified psychopath. I am quite sure the director of this film worships Satan and wishes that he was the main character of this film who brutally tortures the other characters and kills them and leaves one alive to suffer for only God knows how long and gets away with it never coming to justice. The message behind this film is a serious one sent form a truly sadistic person who really wishes that evil would always win. If you are a psychopath and going into the mind of Satan is your favorite thing to do, then you will love this but if you are just a normal person who likes to be scared and entertained, don't watch this satanic sh#t!

Leofwine_draca Another film whose hook is to be based on a story by Clive Baker. This sees a bunch of college students deciding to study fear as part of a college project. This involves them filming and interviewing a number of fellow students about their worst fears. All goes well for a while, but then members of the group begin to realise than one of their number is taking the subject matter far too seriously...Unfortunately this is a largely uninteresting film saddled with unlikeable lead characters and a thunking lack of storyline. Indeed much of the narrative sees the principal characters sort of drifting along aimlessly before a shock scene or two jolts them into action again. There are some interesting elements here, like the grisly ending or the birthmark girl, but they're lost in a general mess of low budget, mean spirited nonsense. The acting isn't too hot either, with Shaun Evans the best of the bunch as the obsessive guy.

SnoopyStyle College student Stephen Grace (Jackson Rathbone) feels normal despite losing his brother in a car accident when Stephen was 15. He befriends outgoing Quaid (Shaun Evans) who is haunted by the brutal murder of his parents in front of his eyes at the age of 6. Quaid suggests a fear survey, and Cheryl (Hanne Steen) joins with Stephen filming his thesis of dread. Not all of the stories are up to Quaid's standards. His nightmares are becoming full blown hallucinations. Stephen's co-worker Abby (Laura Donnelly) has a massive birthmark on half of her body, and she falls for Stephen. He, on the other hand, has a thing for Cheryl who is also haunted by childhood trauma of her own.It's a lot of story telling. It's not the most compelling way to go for a horror movie. There are killings in the first half, but I soon realize that they are all flashbacks, nightmares, or hallucinations. The fact that none of them are 'real' takes away much of the tension. I am a big fan of Clive Barker and this has a good dose of his sexual perversion and human frailty in this. I love Abby's look but quite frankly, that's the only good thing I took away from this movie. The grotesque killings look good but the movie keeps taking it away as being all in Quaid's mind. The acting is reasonable but nobody blew me away. The style and production value is limited. This one just doesn't have the needed thrills although the psychological horror of Abby is very interesting. Confronting fears could be such a great concept if done with real thrills.

Theo Robertson Based upon a short story by Clive Barker one wonders why this hadn't been adapted to the silver screen earlier . The source involved a student being forced in to torture recorded on videotape by an amoral intellectual voyeur obsessed by the human condition of fear . In the early 21st Century horror has seen a sub-genre branch out on its own , that of " torture porn " and the original short story could have been a very fashionable contribution of the sub genre , perhaps a present day version of the Michael Powell film PEEPING TOM . As it stands what we end up with a highly unsatisfying movie that plays up to the weaknesses of Barker's short story rather than its strengths First of all Barker wrote a rather talkative but streamlined short story . This is going to be problematic to anyone bringing the story to screen . The story proper that Barker envisaged doesn't really happen on screen until the final third . An impatient horror audience aren't going to pay their money to watch a character driven piece . Make no mistake the producers here aren't marketing their movie for a mainstream movie going audience interested in any sort of psychological horror but one where the intended audience are hardcore gorehounds so in order to keep the audience interested we're given several scenes that seem to be included to merely to keep the audience interested and some of these scenes are the lowest common denominator - one where the character is having a hallucination/nightmare/flashback . Very lazy writing on the part of the screenwriter and somewhat alienating too as these scenes are very unpleasant . In fact the whole look of the film is unpleasant as nearly every single scene is set in a dark and gloomy interior . It's not just down to the budget but also down to the fact that it's a British production and it's going to be difficult realising American locations in a low budget British production . This might receive some praise on an artistic level since the claustrophobic look and feel suits the story perfectly but it's a rather nasty and unlikable horror film and it seems a very long time ago Clive Barker was seen as the future of horror and had a massive trans-Atlantic hit with HELLRAISER