Why bother subverting expectations early on if you're only going to resort to cliché later? The clairvoyant character is lifted from "The Shining" the police station siege is a "Terminator" retread. ![]() But where Romero is famous for exploring the dimensions of his deceptively simple premises, Salva retreats from them into mannered predictability.Narrowing his scope to a cat and mouse game, the writer-director fritters away too many possibilities even before the second act is out, and the third act is plainly bad. ![]() Especially good is Salva's patience in developing his sibling protagonists, their dialogue and reading good enough to establish what most genre work can't even dream of - plausible characters. What he accomplishes in the first act is a quite masterful bogeyman set-up, disturbing yet inviting, and for a moment, we may think we hear Tobe Hooper's chainsaws. What look like bodies being dumped down a sewer pipe next to a rotted church their curiosity must be satisfied.
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