Well, it’s February and you know what that means: Horror
movies. No, I didn’t just suffer a stroke; it’s just that the start of the year
is usually when studios dump off the movies that weren’t good enough for
release the previous year, and horror movies are nothing if not plentiful
regardless of the time of year. Knowing that off-season horror fare usually
isn’t worth writing home about (we’ll ignore the irony that I do that for
literally every new film I see), I can’t say I was expecting much from this. Hell,
between director Adam Robitel, whose last film was
pretty plain in the visual department, and writers whose best-known work
between them is an early-2010’s Nicolas Cage flick, there’s not much reason to
expect more than mediocrity here. Well, thankfully, this film does have quite a
bit going for it. And it even manages to achieve some of it.
