Seeing the preview for this film really piqued my interest.  There was something about it that did not reek of teenage slasher films, but also gave a dread feeling of darkness.  When I see a scary movie, I really enjoy a movie that not only skirts around the dark places of your mind that you are wondering what is there and then it sends you right in the middle of it to see what is in there (Not a hockey mask wearing, knife fingering wielding misunderstood teenager).

The first 10 minutes of this movie grab ahold of you and take you to those dark places.  Verbinski does a fantastic job of building the suspense to a peak and then throwing you over.  Later on as you are watching the video that is supposedly "cursed", you to have a feeling that you should not be watching this and that you are going to get the phone call after the movie is over.

Granted the movie does get a little overdone with sending people to mental hospitals and horses dying on the beach, but it still holds together to provide a fun, yes FUN and scary time at the movie.  That, if you remember is what movies started out as in the beginning.

Go see this movie if you can at a theater, if not get the biggest screen you can and turn out all the lights.  Guaranteed, you will have problems looking at a blank TV screen once this is over.