The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

It's more haunting than it has any right to be, thanks to its love of long, lonesome highways and the way the violence of the past bleeds into the present.

Los Angeles Times by Sam Adams

As for Gellar, she seems game but glum, treading water in a role that represses her comic talents and leaves her little to do but suffer in silence.

New York Post by Kyle Smith

The minimalist style keeps the suspense warm. The movie is unusual among teen horror flicks in that it largely avoids the usual cheap thrills and bursts of scare music. Instead, it carefully repeats isolated images and sound bites until they take on a shivery power.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

London-born director Asif Kapadia's second feature, following 2001's critically acclaimed "The Warrior," is a slow, low-key supernatural thriller whose story is too slender to justify its feature-length running time.

Entertainment Weekly by Gregory Kirshling

Mellow -- nay, snoozy -- atmospherics trump actual scares, and it makes almost zero sense.

Empire by James Dyer

A large step backwards for a promising director and far from the return we'd been hoping for.

Variety by Dennis Harvey

Forgettable PG-13 pic will particularly strike fans of harder-edged recent horror pix as much ado about not much.

Austin Chronicle by Steve Davis

A welcome antidote to most of the crap that for passes today for horror and other supernaturally themed movies.

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

While Adam Sussman's screenplay can be admired for its emphasis on subtle atmospherics rather than cheap scares, it is a gimmicky slog of an affair that lacks narrative coherence or strong focus.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

You may see scarier movies this year, but none so redolent of decomposition.