Carpenter's economical but mundane chiller is possessed more by previous ghoul-friend flicks than it is by his better work.
– Joe Neumaier,
New York Daily News,
8 Jul 2011
rotten:
The shocks mostly consist of figures suddenly rising up in the background, or thunderclaps from a seemingly endless thunderstorm.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
8 Jul 2011
rotten:
The horror master's first film in nine years is not the comeback we had wished.
– Colin Covert,
Minneapolis Star Tribune,
8 Jul 2011
rotten:
Carpenter has made his approximation of a cheap, twisty, shock-filled modern horror movie, and he has lost all but faint sighs of his minimalist swagger in the process.
– Scott Tobias,
NPR,
8 Jul 2011
rotten:
An aggressively plain spook story that favors jump moments over sustained tension and winds up falling back on a particularly tired twist.