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A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It is a surrealistic film, like a nightmare. Very claustrophobic n heavy on atmosphere. Saw this first in 2007 on a DVD. Revisited it recently. The movie is about a college girl who is trying to get home on Christmas break. She hitches a ride with a complete stranger by getting his number thru a college ride board. Strangely, the stranger knows everything about her. The stranger takes a short cut through the forests..... The acting by the two leads were very good, especially Blunt. The director did a good job with the settings n atmosphere. The story was decent but audiences may find shades of Dead end, The Abandoned 2006, Triangle, No mans land aka Reeker 2 n Haunter. Also ther r aspects in this movie which ain't original. In this movie u can make out when the terror is approaching when the song starts playing in the car a la Jeepers creepers style. Also most of the film is shot in the car a la Joy ride n Penny dreadful. The score is very good, in particular the piece at the beginning and end. Very haunting n sad. Despite nearly the entire film being set in the broken down car n almost in one location it never gets boring.

A college student (Emily Blunt) finds a ride home to Delaware for the Christmas holidays from the bulletin board. He (Ashton Holmes) is getting kicked out of his apartment. They don't get along. He goes on a snow covered side road despite her objections. They get run off the road by oncoming traffic. There is no phone signal. He turns out to be a stalking romantic who planned to use the trip to start a relationship. The weather turns even colder as night falls. Then strange apparitions appear as well as a threatening mysterious cop (Martin Donovan) from 1953.There is a basic problem with this setup. Holmes' plan to get her alone is more than creepy. It's basically kidnapping and if anything, that made her nicer to him. Their relationship is all wonky. She's an annoying girl to him, then he turns into Norman Bates, and the murdering ghosts turn them into a couple. A lot more thought needs to go into figuring out how to write their story. It would be so much better if they were acquaintances before the drive and he held a secret crush. The acting is pretty good. One can't really go wrong with Emily Blunt. However this isn't particularly scary. It's a bit moody and that's mostly due to the snowy windy night. The movie is spooky but not scary.

A college student (Emily Blunt) trying to get home for the holidays catches a ride with another student (Ashton Holmes). She becomes suspicious of him when several things he says don't add up and thinks he might be a stalker or serial killer or something. Then the two become stranded on a deserted stretch of road in the snow. Surviving each other and the elements is bad enough but they have to contend with ghosts as well.A surprisingly well-done little ghost story starts out strong building suspense and misdirecting the audience that this might be some kind of slasher thriller where the guy chases after the girl he's obsessed with. But once it becomes clear that's not the type of movie it's going to be, it becomes more interesting and then quickly less interesting as the last half-hour or so is rife with clichés. Emily Blunt and Ashton Holmes both do well playing flawed but believable characters. She's a bitch and he's a weirdo so you really aren't sure for awhile who you're supposed to root for, if anybody. It's a good movie though and definitely worth checking out if you're interested in ghost stories.

I'm sure some folks (particularly those who dine on a regular diet of horror films) won't find this movie to be terribly scary. Personally, it scared the shiznit out of me.As others have noted, it's more of a psychological thriller than a gorefest. I prefer these kinds of movies.Yes, it has some slow moments, but it builds up in terms of intensity.For reference, I watched Silent Hill, and was just not as impressed with that movie as this one. That film was what I would call "over the top." The Ring is another horror movie that I consider scary as hell. (American version, I haven't seen the original Japanese.) Overall verdict: This is a lower-budget, scary-as-hell, closer-to-life psychological horror movie that in my personal opinion is well underrated.