Best movie of this year hands down!

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Jack, Melissa, and Nathan move to a new town and a new house in University housing.At least three of the neighbors knew that Nathan's birthday was coming right up. There's a bad sign if there ever was one! The active hornets' nest was another, especially since the editor keeps cutting to it. The rotten meat in Jack's office desk was a third; the claw marks on the family room wall should probably count as well. The fellow who came by to fix the claw marks takes one look, runs away, gets hit by a car. A door slams shut, followed by windows slamming shut and glass breaking. Good start.Melissa has an unexpected bleeding event which leads her to find out she's pregnant. Her new doctor prescribes complete bed rest coupled with getting a nanny for Nathan and a nurse for Melissa. The neighbor across the street falls, is impaled, and dies. All sorts of clues come from neighbors and Jack's co-workers at the University.The nurse is rather sinister, but the nanny Rhonda seems light and pleasant. Denise beats the living crap out of her, muscles in on the job, including stealing Rhonda's mobile phone. She majors in comparative religions and works part time at a butcher shop. Great stuff.This goes on and on: 'significant event' after significant event, right up to the end. Unfortunately, the film brings none of this significance to fruition.------Scores------One star of five; two black holes for acting and screen writing.Cinematography: 5/10 For daylight portions, the fundamentals were good. The filming during the first ritual sacrifice was hideously bad. The night sequences were spotty.Sound: 7/10 Probably the best part of the film.Acting: 0/10 There were so many bad performances. Hayden Byerly was terrible. Aurelia Scheppers was a disaster. None of the adult actors were worth much either. Jon Briddell, as the clueless father, was the worst of them all.Screenplay: 0/10 Lots of bad execution. Very little of the action makes direct sense. Motivation? Forget that. A handcuffed, willful, incredibly stupid teenager escapes from the inside of a locked police car from the back seat, just second before the car explodes? I don't think so. Jack could have saved his wife by lifting the cord. Jack murdering people to save the son who killed his wife? What goes here? Not logic. The ending did not present resolution or clarification; rather, the ending seemed to deny so much of the rest of the film. The SFX were just sad.

I'm so disappointed to rate this film so low. I love a good Satanic apocalypse! The problem is, there was nothing scary, heart-pounding, or creepy about it whatsoever. In a nutshell, here's the scoop: A family moves to Nowheresville, USA including a 10-year-old boy who's scheduled to turn 11 on November 11, 2011. We know things will go awry when the kid makes the astounding revelation that the numbers in the address of their house total 11 - ooh, scary. So, gradually, the kid (albeit quiet from the get-go) starts acting weirder and weirder as the fateful date approaches, including knowing his mom's pregnant before she does.There are a bunch of weirdos around town including a dingbat old lady who's continually looking for her cat (which has no relevance to the movie other than its powdery corpse later found under the boy's bed), and the realtor they purchased the house through who ends up being apart of a Satanic cult. How they knew the child demon seed was moving to town, I don't know, nor will you. I know what you're thinking - this might still be okay, right? Kinda like a modern-day The Omen. Sorry, no dice.So, dingbat keeps trying to lure the kid to her place where she can kill him because she knows he's destined to be the son of Satan. So, the obvious question is, why does he need to come to your place to be killed? Drop a boulder on the kid...hello? Anyway, dingbat strikes out as do several others who try to spill the beans on the local Satanists and find an early demise for their troubles.But don't worry, the Satanic posse has an inside mole...a nanny who looks like a witch's apprentice (just the type I like for my kids). I love the part when the dad discovers the nanny's manipulating the boy including teaching him about the apocalypse and scratching his body with this chicken claw thing...and what does he do? Why, go to work of course. Call the cops? Nah.But he'll be sorry, cuz when he comes home, the boy's gone off the deep end and is suddenly looking to open a can of whoop-ass Satan-style. A bunch of people die in a sort of ho-hum fashion, including the kid and I practically fall asleep from the lack of scare, thrill or creep.I'd like to see this movie remade with the boy just as a normal kid who the Satanic cult insists is the son of Satan. Then it's like a Taken meets Damien Omen -- THAT I could sink my teeth into. Geeze, I should write scripts...Oh wait, I already do.

This is one of those so bad it's good movies. First off this family moves to this college town. It seems like they have a house on campus but I am not sure. But mention was made of the neighbor living on the campus for years. The husband has gotten a job working at the school. Where he replaced a Professor who ran off, disappeared or was killed.The family has a son who I thought was possessed from the start. He rarely utters a word. People talk to him but he doesn't talk back. He has no reaction to anything. Even a person getting run over by a truck. The mother I think is a little odd too. She seems to be put off and annoyed with everybody. The husband seems to be the only person in the family that acts normal. I am not sure if the mother kind of knew about her son or just was not attentive. Because the boy utters to his mother something about her being pregnant and she says she is not pregnant. But a few scenes later we find out she is. Why didn't the mother think it was odd that her son seemed to be some type of fetus whisperer.The doctor tells the wife and husband that she has to stay still and in bed because she might lose the baby. Well the next thing you know he tells them they get a nurse and a nanny for the boy. Their health plan takes care of that. I can see a nurse but a nanny too. Must be a special health plan. Well that was just a way to get some of the cult members in the house to watch the boy and the mother.There is a crazy neighbor who is trying to kill the boy before his 11th birthday which falls on 11/11/11. Yes because of that he is going to be responsible for the Apocalypse and that is what they want to happen. My question what about all the other soon to be 11 year old with the same birthday? In any case the father soon sees something is up and he tries to stop it. Now I am not going to tell the end. But let's say numerous people are killed including a cop being blown up and no one seems to notice. I have to mention also that the whole town does not belong to this cult. The cops obviously are not in it. So why no mention of all of these dead bodies that keep on turning up? People are getting killed in broad daylight. And there is the required levitation scene that all of these types of movies must have.I say if you love movies that are so bad they are good, take a look. But if you don't, skip it because you will never get that time back. For you folks I told some of the plot and plot pot holes so you can decide if you want to waste your time or not. I understand there is a sequel, hopefully it doesn't disappoint and it is as awful as this movie is.

This film is topical, fastly paced and very intense.The director/co-writer was first noticed by Asylum for his acting in '3Musketeers'.Unknown actors usually add to the realism of a film,Yes,It's true here too.There are numbers of creep-out moments that set us up for a fall- ALWAYS look for your cat ,As soon as it comes up missing.Beware of nannies (Aww,Check the news tonite and every night from now on).Birthdays can be a big deal to a whole town.Never,Ever move into a neighborhood,Sight unseen