Overrated

dmkay

Why on earth is this movie considered a horror masterpiece?  It's boring as all heck.  Absolutely nothing happens for 40 minutes, then we watch a mute woman go insane.  If we had any reason to give a hoot about her character, maybe this would be interesting, but since she appears to be almost comatose right from the start I never once cared what happened to her.  Her character never seems real or plausible (how has she lived this way for so long if she's always been so crazy?) and her actions lack any motivation we can understand.  Oh, and the bonus for sitting through this endless bore-fest is a "climax" that takes 10 minutes to build up to...nothing.  The only redeeming features of this movie are the brief scares (cracks in wall, rape scenes) which are affective at waking you up every now and then, and the rabbit.  If Polanski made the rabbit the main character maybe this would have been more entertaining.

score 4/10

dmkay 10 April 2003

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw0090654/