horror movie can be a lot of fun with low budget and bad acting and and a bit of panache . i think the film be just miss panache and because and one thuddingly dull scene after another and people make laughably harmless claw hand grab at the air . if it weren not so boring and it might be funny . a horror film can go a long way with a tired concept like college kid in a haunt house and in much the same way the evil dead movie have a lot of fun with a similar standard plotline . hallow end and unfortunately and doesn not go a long way . actually and it doesn not go anywhere . it spend the good part of an hour set up faceless and anonymous character with what seem like endless interpersonal drama . i have nothing against character development and not even in a horror movie and but these be strictly one dimensional character ( the alpha male and the milquetoast and the . um . throwaway character that exist mostly for sex scene . ) spending forty plus bloodless and drone minute with them be more horrific than when the bloodshed start . well and imply bloodshed anyway . when the college kid turn into whatever they dress a for their haunt house ( one a vampire and one wearing o. r. scrub and some white pancake ) they look pretty much the way they do in their amateur haunt house costume while the dead hate the living and use a similar theme and be a masterwork in comparison . there isn not really any gore to speak of and nor be there any real scare . i have think about this one from almost every approach . if it be suppose to be a tight and suspenseful horror movie ( which would explain why thing move so slowly ) and the pathetic sex scene and cheap monster would invalidate it . if it be suppose to be a genuine blood and gut horror movie ( which would explain the schlock ) . where the blood and gut . and the anticlimax be one of the unexciting ending to a movie i have ever see . it the kind of movie that and though it doesn not have a narrator through the film and be bookended by voice over because all of the meaningless dialogue just wasn not enough . this be a hard one . come out of it and i wonder if i have just sit through a christian horror film . maybe the i know hell exists of the opening wasn not mean that way and but there be some hint ( or misdirection i be not sure which ) . for all the profanity in the film and a line like gosh darnit come off a little absurd and and so do most of the crucifix worshipping and god fearing and and satan dreading and especially after some lecherous t and a sex scene ( one heterosexual and one lesbian ) . if it a christian company ( highland myst logo even have a bit of a crucifix resemblance ) and then this film weigh in heavily for the atheist camp . an omnipotent be can not be this bad a filmmaker .