Joanna Going has a great face for a horror film, but preferably for the part of a zombie, a vampire, a revenant, a sorceress, a Satanist, a somnambulist, not, as here, a garden-variety damsel in distress (politically correct damsel, naturellement: a sensible doctor). Rose McGowan, physically well cast as Going's sister, would be welcome to a spot in some Dracula's harem or witches' coven, too. The present movie gets off to a decent creepy start with the sisters' arrival in a bafflingly depopulated cozy little town in the Rockies, but the crude brutality of the "thrills," the yucky makeup, the slimy monsters, the sound effects, the camerawork, etc., cannot sustain a mood, unless the mood that was striven for was simply a sour one. Ben Affleck, Peter O'Toole, Liev Schreiber; directed by Joe Chappelle. (1998) — Duncan Shepherd
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