This film was not scary or creepy. It was a pathetic version of "chuckie", yet shorter. If you are looking for a decent horror movie, your not in the right area.It was an alright episode, but not if your looking for scary. It was unrealistic, more supernatural. Also quite bad acting if i must say. I would recommend, 'The haunting in Kenetticut'. Its scary, mind-controlling. It is far more advanced then this excuse of a horror. I watched it with a group of friend, you'll be looking round corners, closing curtains and leaving lights on. I leaves you with nightmares. I really think you should consider this as an alternative.

Shy high school misfit Tara (an excellent and endearing performance by the pretty Lindsay Pulsipher) gets abducted by a sinister couple and locked in the basement of their large remote mansion with strange mute boy Johnny (an impressive pantomime portrayal by Jesse Haddock). Tara learns that resolute cellist Judith (a fine Lori Petty) and her nerdy pianist husband Anton (a splendidly antsy turn by William Samples) made a pact with a powerful demonic force to sacrifice twelve children to a vicious beast in order to bring their dead son back to life. Director William Malone, working from an intriguing and original script by Matt Greenberg, does an expert job of creating and maintaining a supremely eerie and unnerving atmosphere and milks plenty of nerve-rattling tension from the dusty claustrophobic cellar setting. Moreover, Malone puts a welcome and refreshing emphasis on sustaining a spooky and unsettling dark fairytale-style mood throughout while downplaying the gore. Better still, the story even makes a profound and poignant statement on the extremes people are willing to go to in the name of love; while Judith and Anton are undeniably quite ruthless in the lengths they resort to resurrect their son, they still elicit the viewer's sympathy just the same. The acting is uniformly first-rate, with Petty a stand-out in a rare full-blown wicked role. The freaky and grotesque skeletal beast makes for a genuinely scary monster. The surprise twist ending likewise packs a punch. Brian Pearson's stunning cinematography offers a few striking stylistic flourishes which includes an especially inspired use of black and white for several flashback scenes. Nicholas Pike's shuddery score does the shivery trick. A very solid and satisfying entry.

C'mon people, i really don¡t understand why some of you says that this is a good movie. Trust me, i have seen a lot of horror movies, and this is one of the worst, not the WORST (beacause "The Brink" wons that tittle years ago) but this is on my top 10 of bad-bad horror movies of all the time. Bad Effects. Bad History. No blood. No gore. No Horror.and ... this is a horror movie right?So, please people. Don't See this movie. Its Crap, like a millions other. Just don't waste your time in this, save your money, or whatever.

The other reviewer must have watched a different version than I did? Also the obvious bias against the director is more than obvious! Most people don't give a hoot, or will even know or care that the director did "Fear.Com!" Taken as an installment in the Masters of Horror series, I consider this to be one of the best! I watch every horror/sci-fi/fantasy flick that comes out and this episode actually had me scared! The use of early silent era (Nosferatu, etc.,) skip-frame technique (that jerky movement: every 5th-6th frame) really works here and lends a superb atmosphere of the 'supernatural' to the object in question! The other reviewer had issues with this director being called a "Master of Horror"? Look at the bulk of work by the other directors in this series!! Yikes! Not what I call a brilliant body of work!! That doesn't mean they can't make a good short feature! I think some of the other directors best works are part of this series! I saw it on cable first..then bought it! A must see!!!