Why bother subverting expectations early on if you're only going to resort to cliché later? The clairvoyant character is lifted from "The Shining" the police station siege is a "Terminator" retread. But where Romero is famous for exploring the dimensions of his deceptively simple premises, Salva retreats from them into mannered predictability.Narrowing his scope to a cat and mouse game, the writer-director fritters away too many possibilities even before the second act is out, and the third act is plainly bad. Especially good is Salva's patience in developing his sibling protagonists, their dialogue and reading good enough to establish what most genre work can't even dream of - plausible characters. What he accomplishes in the first act is a quite masterful bogeyman set-up, disturbing yet inviting, and for a moment, we may think we hear Tobe Hooper's chainsaws. What look like bodies being dumped down a sewer pipe next to a rotted church their curiosity must be satisfied.
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