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Clearly made on a low budget, this horror film was fun to watch. The cast were great and they put a lot of energy into their roles. I was particularly impressed by the acting of Adam Probets as a schoolteacher, and Sophie and Alex Bullock as two of the main children at the school. The writer director Jason M J Brown works wonders to provide the shocks, the suspense and the gore associated with this kind of horror film with limited resources. It would be unfair to compare it with a Hollywood blockbuster which cost countless millions to make - enjoy it for what it is, an 'Alien' type film set in a school and made with more enthusiasm than money. It gets the thumbs up from me!

I saw this film on its cinema release in the UK and thought it was pretty dreadful. I remember a ridiculous scene in which a snooker player is chasing the other player around the table in a rage, with the legendary commentor Ted Lowe saying "The crowd are loving this". 'Whispering' Ted Lowe demeaned himself by taking part in this travesty and must have just done it for the money. The story strongly implies that there's widespread fixing of matches in snooker which is most certainly not the case in real life apart from a few isolated cases. It's a truly bad film in so many ways but I give it 4 stars because I wasn't bored by it.

I had high expectations for this film but unfortunately I found it disappointing. The story itself was interesting and held my attention, but the sound, continuity and photography were all inadequate, not to mention the tedious, incessant and inappropriate music score. The acting, with a few exceptions, was weak, and to bill Brian Cox as the star in the opening credits showed some nerve - what a con! He never even appeared on screen, just providing brief narration. I sat through the whole film wondering how on earth it could have won any kinds of awards or indeed how it was even selected for various film festivals. Clearly this film was made on too small a budget, making it look like an over-stretched amateur production.