The Hoarder

The whole storyline was intriguing but the ending fell short. I'm not sure if they wanted to make a sequel, but it sure left it open to do so!

Laughable dialogue. Poor performances. The kind of idiotic decisions only found in lousy horror movies. This idea had potential, but it's totally lost in production. The one plus: the creature looks good and is appropriately scary.

Set in a storage facility with a creepy, off-limits basement section, this is by no means a horror classic, but it's watchable. I really don't get why IMDB allows some of the ratings - this is clearly not a 10/10 film to any rational person, so the 10 scores are, one would suspect, from people who worked on the film, and their mums. The 1/10 scores, as always, seem to come from people who seem unable to give any other score if there's anything they don't like about a film. Both should be ignored. There are some decent ideas here, and a reasonable amount of tension. Nobody's getting Oscar-nominated for this, but the acting isn't terrible, nor is the direction. It may not be objectively very good on any level, but neither is it terrible on any level. It's a middling time-filler that deserves a middling score.

Your basic creepy creature veers into something else. It's low budget and shows but everyone does their job well enough and there's some genuine eeew and yuck moments. Odd, mixed bag of a cast. Mischa Barton is becoming a familiar face in low budget horror. It's okay certainly not terrible.

This wouldn't be so bad, if it weren't for the clichés and some of the actors (for various reasons, either while they probably can't do any better or because their roles have been underwritten). Take Mischa Barton: She was "working" perfectly in OC, but since then has not found a place in the "acting"/movie business.

But while the movie does pack a punch or two (the ending is either too good for the movie or will annoy you, because the movie seemed to go to a different place), the overall feeling gets undermined by many factors, another one being the script/dialog. It's a shame really, especially considering all the places this could've gone (no pun intended)