Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

It was kindof predictable, but I liked it anyway. I liked the scenes, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan did an excellent job seeming both wholesome and kind in the beginning, and super creepy later. I had to LOL when he borrowed her toothbrush and licked her fingers in her sleep. Def major creepo factor! But funny. Give it a watch if you're just in the mood for a thriller.

Boy, where do I begin? Like many said in the message boards, this film uses every possible cliché there is. Some of the scenes were supposed to be scary and demented and dark, but they come across as ridiculous, thanks to bad acting. That's the other thing that appalled me. Swank and Morgan are good actors, as is Pace, yet here they are horrible. Their expressions, the dialogue, the editing, it all seems like it belongs in a B production TV movie. There's no tension, the movie is predictable from the start. The whole time I was watching it, I kept thinking it was an old movie, when Swank and Morgan were not established as actors. I was shocked to see it is from 2011. Can not imagine what made them accept their roles. The only reason I watched it till the end was Morgan, as I enjoyed watching him as John Winchester in Supernatural, and especially as Negan in The Walking Dead. He is also the sole reason why I gave this movie a 3/10. Wouldn't even recommend it for a lazy Sunday afternoon when you've got nothing better to do.

This thin story goes nowhere other films haven't gone before with more excitement and meaning or at least shocks. The moody first 20 minutes quickly turn into a slog after a "twist" that any brief description of the film will spoil before you watch it anyway.Like all of Hammer films recent (rebirth films--and much of their overall output and reputation) this is handsomely made film. Though most of it takes place on New Mexico shot interior sets it all looks seamlessly like NYC and features good real NYC exterior scenes. But so what? Jeffrey Dean Morgan proves that he has limits to what he can do here. I like the guy as a performer and he usually makes anything he is in better than it was before he arrived. Take the way he helped the second season of EXTANT TV series for example. But his acting isn't up to what's required here and his general vibe is all wrong. He is totally miscast here and can't overcome that. He seems too natural confident and relaxed to be the psychopathic obsessive loner we are supposed to believe him to be. The more they put him in situations that are to show how creepy his is the more the problem becomes and the situations become borderline silly.Swank is equally miscast really, not being willing to do any nudity--which a film that partly is supposed to be about sexuality its repression and obsession--requires, and she never seems emotionally or physically vulnerable. Her talking about being exhausted or repressed just seems like dialogue, not reflected in how she looks or acts.Why she'd be interested in being in a film like this is a bit of a puzzle. Being the center of almost every shot and probably being the largest single dollar amount in the budget would be appealing, sure.The whole thing finally turns into protracted and not well done slasher chase scene inside the apartment's confined inner recesses.Though the same director went on to do PURGE--leading to a successful theatrical run of movies--he does little here to show he has much interest in the genre. Only the classy production values separate this from a Lifetime movie and the fact that it barely got released is no surprise. This would be a not--too--good episode of Hammer's own previous television series in the 80's and it's just not, as made, a feature or worth feature length.Music score is useless adds nothing to the characters or supposed scares. Mostly the middle hour of the film is dull and predictable.Christopher Lee plays a part like his friend Peter Cushing did or might have were he still alive. That part is the old man. Really that's it, that's his role. He seems a little threatening....once.Lee plays it with a vacant, almost lost, old man look--that is not how he, himself looked at the time--so it is a performance and his final scene is well done physically--as Lee was always among other things a physical actor--even in a role here that requires mostly no movement. But having him in the movie and doing as little as they do here shows another level of script and directing disinterest. Especially to have him "return" to Hammer to make a film they basically do as little as possible with him. Still fans will see the potential the filmmakers didn't.The whole thing hardly seems worth the trouble of being made or watched.

Dr. Juliet Devereau (Hilary Swank) is recently broken up with her boyfriend from Jack (Lee Pace) and rents a place from Max (Jeffrey Dean Morgan).It's your basic lone-girl-in-big-bad-world horror. It's not at all scary and it is horribly boring. There is one major reveal midway through which made the last half very creepy but it really doesn't solve the problem of the incredibly slow pace. IMDb says the budget was $20M which really surprised me. It must be all in paying Hilary Swank because none of it shows up on the screen. It has the look of a B-level horror. The set is weak. It's a good cure for insomnia.