- Film Review
- Reviewed By John Ferguson
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2 out of 5
This is a curiously clunky mix of sci-fi and horror from Miramax offshoot Dimension Films, a company that revitalised the teen horror market with movies such as Scream and The Faculty. Rose McGowan (Charmed) and Joanna Going play sisters who return to their isolated home town and discover that virtually everyone has vanished. Ben Affleck plays the puzzled local cop and Peter O'Toole hams it up as a dotty scientist who holds the key to the mystery. However, despite the presence of Scream alumni McGowan and Liev Schreiber and a script from horror maestro Dean R Koontz (adapting his own novel), this fails in the fright department, with too much talk and not enough gore.
Plot Summary
Horror adapted from the book by Dean Koontz, starring Peter O'Toole, Joanna Going, Rose McGowan and Ben Affleck. When two sisters arrive at a Colorado ski resort, they find the town deserted except for some horribly mutilated corpses. A message scrawled on a mirror leads them to an eccentric British professor who could hold the key to the force behind their gruesome discovery.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Timothy Flyte
- Peter O'Toole
- Dr Jennifer Pailey
- Joanna Going
- Lisa Pailey
- Rose McGowan
- Sheriff Bryce Hammond
- Ben Affleck
- Deputy Stu Wargle
- Liev Schreiber
- General Leland Copperfield
- Clifton Powell
- Deputy Steve Shanning
- Nicky Katt
- Soldier Velazquez
- Michael DeLorenzo
- Scientist Lockland
- Rick Otto
- Scientist Talbot
- John Hammil
- Agent Hawthorne
- Bo Hopkins
- Agent Wilson
- Robert Knepper
Crew
- Director
- Joe Chappelle
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