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Avg. Critic Score: 37 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    In trash as in art there is no accounting for taste, and reader, I cherished this movie in all of its lurid glory. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    For a while there, Mathieu Kassovitz's atmospherically charged direction sucks the viewer into the story's hellish vortex. That is until the film becomes possessed by an increasingly ludicrous beyond-the-grave element from which there is no rational return. Read full review

  • 50
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    The movie gets a mild boost when her escape briefly takes it from just another crummy supernatural thriller into an OK escape melodrama, albeit one dependent on a whopper of an unlikely occurrence. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Comes from the same jolly homage-to-schlock-shock producers who remade ''House on Haunted Hill,'' and the emphasis is shamelessly on ornate scares. But with its high-gloss cast and French art-house actor and director Mathieu Kassovitz (''Hate'') in charge, the movie also shoots for class. Read full review

  • 40
    Variety | David Rooney

    Hampered by thinly developed characters and pedestrian plotting. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Ann Hornaday

    An unsurprising, undistinguished piece of post-summer, pre-holiday detritus. Read full review

  • 30
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    Proves to be both too much and not enough: yet another slick, empty package of ersatz entertainment. Read full review

  • 30
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    How anyone in the cast manages to keep a straight face is one of the film's innumerable mysteries. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    Tolerable for undiscriminating horror fans but should be shunned by everybody else. Read full review

  • 25
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Stupefyingly stupid thriller. Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Grisly, disturbing, extremely violent horror film.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has intense peril and disturbing, graphic, and grisly images of violence. There are references to extremely violent crimes. There is nudity in a scene of a group shower and a joke about circumcision. Characters use very strong language. One positive note is the portrayal of a strong, intelligent, resourceful black woman.
  • Families can talk about Pete's comment that "the ability to repress is actually a vital survival tool." What other survival tools did Miranda demonstrate?
The good stuff
  • rolemodels true2 Positive role models: Portrayal of a strong, intelligent, resourceful black woman.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Graphic and grisly images of violence; creepy and very scary peril, murders. Very scary peril.
  • sex false5 Sex: Non-sexual nudity, references to rape and sexual torture.
  • language false5 Language: Some very strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Smoking.
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