Last night I watched P2 simply because I felt like watching a typical horror movie not for anything more than just to finish off the popcorn.

I expected your garden-variety forgettable suspenseful chick screaming flick with your usual psych outs and orchestral bullshit that somehow always feels like it's just insulting your intelligence instead of entertaining you. What I wasn't expecting was the surprising amount of bloodcurdling gore specially considering the setting.

If you haven't heard of the movie I'll give you a rundown without spoiling too much. There's this young woman Angela who works at a large law firm in New York City and I can't remember exactly if she's a lawyer or not but it's not like it matters. Apparently she is some kind of a workaholic who tends to disappoint her family because she always seems to be putting her work over them and getting shit about it from her bitch sister.

So on Christmas Eve she finds herself working later than expected as usual and gets locked in the buildings parking garage on level P2 (hints the title) and to make matters worse the parking attendant Tomas wants to confess his undying love for her by banging her corpse because hes Looney-Tunes-bat-shit-crazy.

Now I am not a Gore-whore by any means necessary, but I do appreciate well executed special-effects that managed to make you cringe and sometimes sick to your stomach. Especially since that kind of thing is becoming more rare as CG is relied upon in place of organic special effects. The worst is when productions won't even slip the bill for blood squirting squid's and just CG the blood squirt in post which just looks awful no matter how well it's done.

My only real gripe about the movie is pretty much the casting. Not to say that both main actors were bad they just weren't right for the parts.

The girl Angela (Rachel Nichols) was really good and extremely convincing as she went from annoyed, anxious, scared, terrified, horrified and then finally numb. The transition of these human emotions in the line of extraordinary circumstances was extremely realistic and well performed. But...and this feels like a really odd gripe no matter how many times I mold it over in my mind. But she was simply too hot to be convincing, I'm not saying she couldn't have been attractive it's just that girls with bodies like hers are porn stars or models or strippers or...actresses. Women with huge melons and an hourglass figure don't usually work real jobs for a living, or at least on the planet I live in.

Same thing could be said about the guy Thomas (Wes Bentley), he played a pretty good nut job but all I kept thinking about was how much more awesome this movie would be if his character was played by a host of different actors that would've been perfect for the part. He was too young and good-looking to be bought as someone who is driven insane by loneliness and social inadequacies.

I believe that's what kept it from being a well-known horror movie of 07 that and everybody rather watch another god damn Saw movie that year instead of seeing something different. So even though it's still a pretty forgettable horror movie it leased it had me screaming Jesus Christ! a couple of times. I would recommend it. But be warned no punches are pulled.

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