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Just got back from seeing this with the family. Believe it or not ,and without reading any reviews or any thing on this site,just from the commercials I knew exactly what the movie was going to be about. Maybe I've been watching movies for too long, but as soon as the scenerio about the villagers not being able to cross the woods was revealed in the commercials....bingo....I figured it out. Maybe I'm a fucking genius......ok...lucky guess perhaps. Anyway about the movie....I thought the acting was very good, especially Opie's daughter.Not scary at all but that could be attributed to my hindsight.The thing about a movie like this is it doesn't warrant a repeat viewing at all.One thing that bugged me was why did the elders , as part of their "hoax" set the years to be 1890's as the tombstone from the first scene suggested? The children growing up in the village wouldn't have know any differance if it was the 1800s or the year 2004, as far as their way of living was concerned, [ did I word that properly, teach Stingy, does that make sense? ] Anyway I guess what I'm saying is the movie was aight but thats about it. Maybe my 12 year old summed it up pretty good. He turned to me and said "that sucked". cute little monster.:)