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Title: All atmosphere with no payoff
Review: This movie did an excellent job of building tension and creating an atmosphere of doom. Nothing much happens for the first hour and twenty minutes EXCEPT for the building of tension, so my opinion is based predomininantly on the last twenty minutes. Did the finale justify the wait? No - not in the least. The twist, or reveal, or what-ever you want to call it, might have been mind blowing 40 years ago, but anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of horror films could have predicted the ending just by looking at the DVD case and the film's title.I'll give the director credit for doing an excellent job of establishing mood and creating the look/feel of a '70s film, but a good horror movie also requires a plot that goes somewhere. I look forward to seeing what the director does next, but can't recommend this one.
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