I keep wanting to like Sarah Michelle Gellar, largely due to the fact she is becoming the mainstream's new "Scream Queen". I want to like her so much... but alas she has yet to do anything I have enjoyed, not on the big screen, not on the small screen. Oh well, enough griping about SMG. The Return isn't a traditional horror movie or traditional thriller, it's a strange combination of the two but lacking in the essential elements of both. It fails to inspire fright or suspense, it also fails to keep ones attention. The direction was slow and uninteresting. The plot was a bit confusing, and not in the way good thrillers are supposed to be. It starts out boring and gets worse as it progresses. I asked the guy at the video store if this was ever in theaters, he said it was and I wondered why I hadn't heard about it, now I know why, it was horribly bad and thankfully word of mouth saved thousands of people's 85 minutes. Sadly The Return made me long for mediocrity of The Grudge.
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