Swedish director Mikael Hafstrom creates a compelling ride of a movie. Every beat of the film is weighted with significance, and our mounting dread becomes almost intolerable.Read Full Review »
75
USA Today: Scott Bowles
At his best, King's most effective creatures are not the ones behind creaking doors, but inside crooked minds.Read Full Review »
This is the most mature horror movie of the year - far more adult and sophisticated than the tedious Hostel Part II. If you like to be creeped out by movies, this is one to see. It reminds us what it's like to be scared in a theater rather than overwhelmed by buckets of blood and gore.Read Full Review »
In the grand scheme of things, the Dolphin Hotel is no Overlook, but it's no cheesy slaughter motel either.Read Full Review »
70
The New York Times: Jeannette Catsoulis
The movie is most effective in its early scenes of prickly menace, and while the Dolphin is no Overlook (the haunted hotel in "The Shining"), its old-world creepiness is exactly right.Read Full Review »
70
Village Voice: Robert Wilonsky
The horror wouldn't work without Cusack, who makes what could have been a rote acting exercise--Be tough! Now angry! Now defensively funny!--a cathartic ritual instead.Read Full Review »
Hotmail
