I babysat for my brother the other day and he threw on Transformers to distract the kiddos before he left. Apparently they really like their "rooobots!". But a second after the door shut behind my brother his five year old informed me that these are not the robots they like. They like Next Gen. Okay, I said, let's check out Next Gen. The kids indeed loved it, especially Mai's loyal little doggy that can somehow communicate with the robots. Next…

I'm fairly surprised that this movie isn't more of a cult classic. It's got all the makings of one, what with some out of the blue funny moments, some cheesy one-liners, and a few notably shocking scenes.

It's extremely effective at setting a mood that grips you early on and sets up a very menacing feel to the rest of the movie. Like Stuart Gordon's "Castle Freak", I was once again very pleasantly surprised by how genuinely creepy this was.…