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I actually really enjoyed this one! It got Jeremy Sisto, Udo kier, the marvelous Deborah Unger and Lance Henriksen and more- in a crazy dark phycological thriller that seems like a mix of The Matrix, Naked Lunch, Blue Velvet and Eraserhead!

Admittedly I'm not always sure whats going on, but the atmosphere is tense and paranoid, dark and oppressive but entertaining. It's maybe not that scary, but it didn't bother me (even if I watched it for being horror) since it's a really solid phycological thriller. It's cool and dark, filmed almost music video like. Does what it sets out to do it seems...

This is one of those drama-artfilms where people are "so sad" that they can't have a single normal conversation, and as nothing eventful happens at all the first 25 minutes it's hard to get into. I expected more to happen when things finally happen but no, there's not much story here -this really is a family drama on a farm on Iceland, that probably out of sheer lack of better ideas where mixed with a few fantastical elements. Yes these make you wonder what is going on, but dont expect a real story or a reveal or, anything! Unless you count the writers-block-ending as a "reveal" or conclusion. And certainty do not expect any horror! No - nada.

Very cool film with some inspiration from The Brood by Cronenberg. Elijah Wood's half-brother plays a wimpy young man whose daughter is kidnapped by feral "kids" haunting the corridors of an almost-abandoned apartment block, in an area so run-down and crime-infested that neither buses nor police will go there.

Who are these kids? Why did they take the baby? Will the wimpy man man up and get his daughter back from the creepy building and its even creepier inhabitants? Watch it and see.

As a final note, the "kids" here aren't the typical long-haired ghost girl cliché, but actual creepy, ugly little buggers.