What could have at least been a halfway decent house-of-horrors scary movie digresses into a puddle of fake blood in this stale little thriller that peaks when its resident baddie mixes a batch of eyeballs in an electric blender.
Elisha Cuthbert plays New York model Jennifer Tree who is kidnapped ostensibly for being a vapid hottie by a New Jersey (think severe underachiever) who videotapes himself torturing such victims.
There’s a not-so-tricky plot twist you’ll probably see coming a mile away, and plenty of Grand Canyon-size plot holes to undermine any actual scares the movie might have conjured up.
Oh, I’ll admit that there is a guilty pleasure in seeing such truly inferior acting as is on display here, especially when it comes at the hands of a formerly respected director (Roland Joffe – "The Killing Fields").
Still, guilty pleasures like these only go so far toward achieving fair entertainment value.
Rated R. 85 mins.
