i do not much mind the factor that others here have object to act and light and so forth . for the most part and these thing be execute well enough to carry the film and put it point across . it just a horror film and after all . what bug me be the point themselves . because this be a deeply moralistic film and and it morality be deeply tacky . in fact it actually fundamentalist christian morality and and this be a fundamentalist christian film . look at the in represent sutherland character pick on a kid at school when he be a pre teen and lead to his accidental death . baldwin character use masculine wile and persuasion and good look to shag quite a few woman and some of whom he videotape . ooh and the swine . how unlucky for him that woman be such passive and gormless creature that they have no complicity in the matter . robert character dad come back from vietnam a junkie and so ashamed to be catch shoot up that he kill himself . yes and what a terrible sin . why couldn not he have just become an alcoholic like all the others . and bacon character pick on another schoolkid . how awful . the fact that he be a child himself apparently count for nought . child and it seem and be divinely judge by adult criterion . well and maybe lot of people support this level of moral absolutism . it certainly seem to have go unremarked in this movie comment . do everyone just buy this stuff . at least human law treat child differently from adult and recognise that their ethical sense be partially form . this film have no such qualm and and i find that pretty objectionable . ditto the notion that woman be helpless and fluffy creature before young men evil lust . or that a vietnam vet drive to drug addiction be so shameful that suicide be a valid option . pathetic .