John White This movie can be looked at in many different ways, so I'll separate my opinions based on what aspects of the movie I paid attention to.First off, in it's horror/action aspects, it was amazingly average, possibly slightly below average. The little hangman symbols in the lockers, typical painful forced-down-your-throat foreshadowing. The weird kid who you know from the start is going to be the crazy villain in the end, you can see it all coming from miles away.What made it drop below average was the spiders...Seriously. If I recall correctly, they were trying to say that Brown Recluse spiders were being planted by the sociopath kid to attack the kids who bully people, and then they say that they were bred to be larger and deadlier...And when they show the spiders, they're these huge tarantula things! Brown Recluses are small, fairly smooth-looking, very long-legged spiders, but I guess you can't expect the film makers to understand evolution and breeding based on the film's themes.As for the "christian themes", they felt shoe-horned in. There's very little more to say about that, seeing the movie is the best way to understand this. It did, however, make the movie feel more hokey and ridiculous.Really, the only reason I watched this movie was that it was filmed primarily at a high school which I live about a mile away from, and it's kinda cool to be able to look at something so local that's in a big (using this word loosely) motion picture.

Miss_DeMented It's rare that I watch a film and hate everyone involved and everything that occurs on screen but this is the exception to the rule. Admittedly, I'm probably a little old for this film but I find it hard to believe that even it's core audience would find much merit.The characters were extremely two dimensional, the situations entirely unbelievable and the so-called 'twist' could be seen from miles away.I imagine that if Nickelodeon started making horror movies, this would be the result. It limped along at a snails pace and the stereotypes of some of the characters appalled me. Surely, even pre-pubescent teens can see through that sort of thing. It strikes me that Frank Perretti has written about people that he has never, ever come into contact with and has no knowledge of whatsoever.Add to the mix a mish-mash of heavily contrived dialogue and you're onto a losing formula.Avoid at all costs, unless you're 12/13. Even then, go and watch 'Spy Kids' or something......

Cemetarygirl Yes this movie does have a deep message but it is handled (to my way of thinking in a trite manner) Relying heavily on stereotypes throughout. It is slow to start and the build-up, does reach a crescendo, and for that I will give it credit. But the story is far too twee for me. The family are 'nice' and have 'nice values' and assume that Witches are bad, that Goths are inappropriately dressed and that the socially driven classes are the way to be. I am not a great believer in uniforms and hated mine (as most of us did) but maybe some American schools should get some. This is not meant to be a trite answer to a serious problem and Bullying is a serious problem. I hate to say this but at my school we weren't even allowed to wear black stockings (it was considered that they cheapened the girls) and most of the students did like to add their own little style to those uniforms but they where not as blatant as in this film. Or was it to ram home a point? But back to the movie Oh right this is the movie. Jocks are encouraged, intellectuals are looked down on, those who are different as ostracized and spiders bite. So the result! The Goths can dress like nice kids because the matter is faced and resolved. Goths are rebelling and it is not a lifestyle choice. We can all say grace and be Christian about things and we can leave all that play-acting Witch stuff behind. Oh and those who once were Goths and Jocks can be friends. Maybe I should just leave these films to the young

pi-r-squared I liked this movie. I'm not into Horror because i class movies like saw and stuff as Horror with lots blood...this movie had no language or gore so if your looking for that kinda movie don't get it....it creeped me out mostly because it was playing on one of my biggest if not my only fear(watch to find out if u don't know) if you a big horror movie fan don't except much out of it..if Ur looking for a good family semi horror get it.the acting was good as well. If you want to put thought into it like for a school project. I'm sure you could to. after seeing this movie I'm thinking of doing a book report on the book for English because its not just a surface level value of entertainment but it goes deeper if u want to look at it. Very well done.If u haven't seen it get go see it