Phantoms (1998)
5/10
Great start, slowly degenerating until a horrible ending
10 August 2005
Warning: Spoilers
The story starts promising and freaky. Two sisters driving a car to see they're parents, living in a small village. When they get there (about two minutes in the movie) the entire village is abandoned, and weird things start happen.

The first 40-50 minutes of the movie is really good, filled with a creepy atmosphere, and the feeling of that an unknown force, with the ability to be everywhere, anytime. But then the story progresses and we realize what is causing this to happen.

The writer of this movie did too good of a job to explain a seemingly supernatural occurrence, to make it "logical" and thereby ruining the scariness of it, making the last thirty last minutes really unscary and more of a action oriented movie.

The story and beginning are great, but fatal flaws in the progress of story ruins the atmosphere, bringing this movie down to its knees.
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