maybe i'm just desensitized from years of horror movies, but i just don't see what the big deal was. after hearing so much about this one, i was expecting to be in for something a little better than this. the pacing is very slow, and i found myself trying not to fall asleep through half of the movie. i kept waiting for all the disturbing scary parts to happen-to no avail. lots of driving around and boring dialog though. there is basically no gore, except for the bathtub scene, which was the ONE scene in the movie that i found truly effective. i found rooker to be fairly decent in the role of henry, although he didn't have too much to say. the supporting roles of becky and otis were played very poorly. otis was especially bad. not horrible, but definitely highly overrated imo.
