Review – The Tomb (2009)

I don’t get movies like this. It’s sufficiently different from Poe’s “Ligeia” that it can’t bask in the glow of The Divine Edgar’s brilliance. Yet it isn’t different enough to avoid making all the key plot twists completely predictable. The filmmakers also seem sex-with-their-clothes-on squeamish about nudity and yet include completely gratuitous partial frontal in a club scene. The result is a movie that got made despite the apparent absence of anyone who knew what kind of movie they wanted to make. The lack of direction – coupled with the “don’t even imply that you’re going to show me animal snuff” shots of a rat in a cage with a snake – made this far worse than it needed to be. Wish I’d skipped it