I don't think the movie was really meant to be scary. It was meant to be more of a thriller, which it was. I thought it was an excellent movie and don't get why other people don't like it. I guess it's because nobody else understood it. When I left the movie theater everyone else that was in there were saying to one another "I don't get it.....what happened?" I didn't find it hard to understand, and I thought it was a very good movie. Not as good as Signs, but a good movie none-the-less.