Somewhere down the line, between her career-defining role in "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and as a nails-against-a-chalkboard princess in I Know What You Did Last Summer, Sarah Michelle Gellar received something of a label as a go-to actress in the horror genre. Her lingering charisma from Buffy's heyday seems to be the only driving force now, because the actual performances she's offered since haven't been encouraging; from her wide-eyed empty disposition in The Grudge to a workable but undistinguished performance in the middling downer The Return, she's been fairly forgettable in the subsequent roles following her iconic '90s offerings. Now she's popped up in , another moody part-supernatural suspense from "the executive producers of" a full slate of Asian horror remakes (The Ring, Shutter, Dark Water), which again leaves her blandly weaving between knee-jerk twists and turns in a poorly executed thriller.
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