What an awful, awful film, but what a brilliant, creepy, inspired opening scene: like something out of a Dario Argento movie, its less than two minutes of grand guignol horror, but a two minutes thats since been quoted as one of the most ambitious and outrageously brilliant scenes in any horror movie in decades. In the cold light of day, of course, its a little ridiculous but this is a horror movie, not a Dogme film. The rest of the film was bound not to live up to that beginning: in fact, it doesnt really even try. Scuttlebutt (like gossip returned from the grave to murder us alllllll) is that the script that persuaded the talented cast to sign on isnt the script that they were faced with when they actually arrived at the set: the claustrophobic thriller had been replaced with an odd, poorly conceived ghost story.Sadly, the finished product is poorly executed as well, with few scares outside of the opening credits and a plot that makes very, very little sense. The soundtrack, however, is rather brilliant, and the film has attained cult status in the last dozen years.