When the movie started, it gave itself some genuine potential. While its background story of a woman wrongly killed for a pair of murders that didn't even happen is nothing new, the use of genuine antique photos to tell the tale at least make a bit of unoriginality easier to bear. What gave the movie the potential it had was its opening segment where a young Kyle ( though he looks a bit old for it) loses his last tooth and puts it out for the Tooth Fairy. An early moment of surprise before the action starts is predictable, but, surprisingly, it actually made me jump. As soon as Kyle is informed not to peek at the Tooth Fairy when she comes, you know you don't have long before the entire plot is going to hurry along. When the Tooth Fairy shows up in the scene, it simply becomes an eerie situation of being chased by something you can't see. This is something the rest of the movie should have paid attention to because the rest of the movie faces a sharp drop off in suspense and sheer creepiness.
As soon as the movie jumps to the future, it is a game of hurry up and wait. The movie moves all its pieces into the right spot and still makes you wait an hour for the climax. It is just me, or are more and more movies doing this lately to worse and worse results. Most of the following actions seem completely illogical by most of the characters (e.g. The Redneck who has no reason to want to beat Kyle, but proceeds to want to do so anyway, and the nurse who for no real reason calls 911). Every time the police arrested Kyle I longed to introduce these people to Gil Grishom from CSI. There would have been no evidence that would lead them to arrest him as a sure fire suspect, yet they keep doing it and treating him like they saw him do it. No wonder so many people think that the police are morons.
The movies chief mistake though, is demystifying the Tooth Fairy herself. In the first scene she was mysterious and creepy, but she shows up so often and so vividly that you become desensitized to her and wonder why anyone who sees her is immediately scared. After a while, she just starts to look like Claude Rains in The Phantom of the Opera. I'm sorry, but whoever decided that the character needed redesigned after they made the McFarlane toy should lose their job. The original design is genuinely creepy, in either version (open or closed mouth). The new version, unmasked, simply looks like Darkman Redux. I paid 3 dollars to see this film last night, and I'm glad thats all I paid. This movies shows virtually every way in which you can kill a horror film. I hate to say this, but it can all be pointed back to Jason Vorhees and Freddy Kruger. Movie Studio suits now think to make a successful horror movie you need a visual monster with a lot of screen time over suspense. Why can't they learn a lesson from The Ring, or Fear Dot Com. Hell, even Ghost Ship was better than this.
P.S. For those who have seen the film, what sort of Fairy Tale is Cat supposed to be reading to her brother. It seemed made up for the film simply to (poorly) foreshadow the ending.
As soon as the movie jumps to the future, it is a game of hurry up and wait. The movie moves all its pieces into the right spot and still makes you wait an hour for the climax. It is just me, or are more and more movies doing this lately to worse and worse results. Most of the following actions seem completely illogical by most of the characters (e.g. The Redneck who has no reason to want to beat Kyle, but proceeds to want to do so anyway, and the nurse who for no real reason calls 911). Every time the police arrested Kyle I longed to introduce these people to Gil Grishom from CSI. There would have been no evidence that would lead them to arrest him as a sure fire suspect, yet they keep doing it and treating him like they saw him do it. No wonder so many people think that the police are morons.
The movies chief mistake though, is demystifying the Tooth Fairy herself. In the first scene she was mysterious and creepy, but she shows up so often and so vividly that you become desensitized to her and wonder why anyone who sees her is immediately scared. After a while, she just starts to look like Claude Rains in The Phantom of the Opera. I'm sorry, but whoever decided that the character needed redesigned after they made the McFarlane toy should lose their job. The original design is genuinely creepy, in either version (open or closed mouth). The new version, unmasked, simply looks like Darkman Redux. I paid 3 dollars to see this film last night, and I'm glad thats all I paid. This movies shows virtually every way in which you can kill a horror film. I hate to say this, but it can all be pointed back to Jason Vorhees and Freddy Kruger. Movie Studio suits now think to make a successful horror movie you need a visual monster with a lot of screen time over suspense. Why can't they learn a lesson from The Ring, or Fear Dot Com. Hell, even Ghost Ship was better than this.
P.S. For those who have seen the film, what sort of Fairy Tale is Cat supposed to be reading to her brother. It seemed made up for the film simply to (poorly) foreshadow the ending.