The photography is fuzzy, the characters are gold-plated stereotypes, the plot is obvious and advances automatically. But the movie works; it delivers the goods. It creates the suspense and fear it tries for.

The sort of raw drama that, sad to say, never loses its topicality.

It's an exercise which remains as potent a time capsule as it is a mirror for the mutated behaviors and discriminations of today's vehemently troubled America which were inherited from their ignorant, complacent forefathers.

Hard to watch for all the right reasons