I avoided this movie in the theatres back in 1998. Nobody liked it--all the critics tore this movie to ribbons and there were a lot of complaints about how 20 minutes (!) was cut from the movie to make it shorter. The studio (MGM) figured teenagers didn't like to see adults in movies, so all the sequences with adults alone were cut out. It also rendered the movie incomprehensible. Seeing it on cable, I was surprised at how OK it was. The acting was pretty good (especially James Marsden), the story moved REAL quick and it had an interesting (albeit unbelievable) idea. The thing is you have to turn off your brain totally and not think about the movie afterwords because there are HUGE plot holes (too numerous to mention here) and glaring inconsistencies. And it got tiresome to see Marsden's character getting beaten up again and again and again...I think I counted a total of SEVEN times! The movie was way too short (82 minutes)...I guess I have to see the DVD for the full version. So, this is a pretty good horror flick--it might have been great but we'll never know.
Review of Disturbing Behavior
