Started out with some promise, but the ridiculousness was so over the top that I was enjoying laughing at it quite a bit. For this reason I gave it a 5-- it was fun. The young protagonist does as well as she can with the thin script and cringe dialogue. The storm, well, as for that, it has high water but certainly lacks the rest of a direct hit from a cat 5 hurricane. It sounded nothing like even a low category 1 hurricane, and the rain and wind made it look like perhaps an at-times severe thunderstorm. It seemed like the only time the wind was loud was when people were trying to yell out to someone else. Sure, maybe they didn't have the effects budget to make it look any more imposing, and that's fine. BUT the sound of the wind was awful. It should sound like it is a howling, almost living beast trying to get in and get you. The interior and crawl space scenes made me think they forgot there was supposed to be a storm. Adequate wind sounds couldn't have been much more expensive, if at all.
