Kade Brueggeman A note to anybody who has read the book: This is not a page for page movie version of the book. It is only loosely based on the book. That being said, I actually enjoyed this movie. It kept to the book (which was awesome) just enough to give a sense of familiarity, yet was original enough in it's own right that it still gave a few surprises. I actually liked the movie ending a lot better than the book ending, because it actually wrapped things up quite nicely. Even though the acting wasn't spot on, the actors still gave a decent representation of the book characters, especially Mr. Peretti. His performance as a crazy scientist was over the top and brilliant. For anybody watching this expecting a horror movie, you might be a little disappointed. There are a few "jump scenes", bit overall it's a pretty family friendly movie. So overall I recommend this movie.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU You won't get a headache on that one. But if you don't like insects, particularly creepy-crawly insects with eight legs and that bite, please abstain since you have been warned. They are delicious animals but they don't exactly like company, in fact they hate company. The only thing that attracts them is the hormone of the other sex and they bite if they get the hormone but not the individual of that other sex. The film is building some kind of teenage thriller on the model of Columbine High School (ostracizing and bullying those who dress differently and listen to different music mostly, and a little bullying against the weakest, but just for fun to get some money out of them and see them wet their pants), plus all kinds of allusions to Freddy and Scream, and you name it you have it. So under the surface dark rooms with furnaces and pipes and tubes and shafts and many other ventilation, heating or just there for decoration pipes and tubes and shafts and whatever. A wing of the high school is of course abandoned and locked up and there is a curse from a hangman, from a teenager who was so bullied in his days that ended up hanging himself to pacify his own life radically and without any possibility for the bullying to start all over again. Then you introduce a family of FBI agents, father, mother, son and daughter, all FBI trained, who are going to infiltrate the school after a series of suspicious suicides. And you have it. Add to that a good case of vengeance on the side of the first teenager who hanged himself, since hatred survives in the bloodline of a victim and you have it. The end reveals that teenagers, even if they are FBI trained like fooling around with other teenagers, fooling around and feeling around to, though the film is discreet about it. At the most a little bit of same sex hugging and mixed hand holding.Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

Michael O'Keefe Not a teen slasher flick...but teens do go down, one by one. Bullies and jocks at Rogers High School die shouting the name of a former student Abel Frye(George Humphreys), who hung himself in a wing of the school still under construction. David Keith plays a special investigator, who along with his wife(Mel Harris), son(Douglas Smith) and daughter(Leighton Meester)work undercover at the school to discover the truth about the legendary curse and end its death grip on the school. Actually interesting and worth watching. Keith fit his role perfectly. Harris seemed pedestrian at best.The cast includes: Edwin Hodge, William R. Moses, Daniel Farber and Margaret Travolta.

StegtKylling This was a ridiculous piece of crap. Just another attestation to the fact that "horror" flicks today are nothing like they used to be. What a piece of garage. The lines were so stupid, acting sub par, and even with David Keith, it was hopeless. Stereotyped characters and unbelievable plots abound in this waste of celluloid. The idea that these two teenagers were trained FBI kids working with their parents is patently stupid. When Elisha suits up in her white protective suit to crawl the ducts of the school in search of a noise, why is it that there are never any students around? And if she's so jittery screaming at this and that throughout this movie, why does she alternate being brave walking around the dark forbidden floor all by herself all the time? The relationship between her and Blake was also unbelievable and forced with dialog that is neither engaging or intelligent on any level. The exchanges and not-so-clever quips between her and her brother border on ad nauseam. The "mysterious entity" behind all the attacks is so very predictable. Your eyes will thank you if you never rent this.