This is, by far, one of the worst mystery films I have ever seen. The characters are plastic and poorly developed, the direction and screenplay both abysmal. It pretends to be a suspense film centered around a California nutcase trapping a bunch of other Cali knuckleheads in a remote house during the height of a torrential and seemingly endless storm. The culprit is convinced that one of his hostages was emailed a highly sensitive document that would have exposed an illegal international act. He has already killed the person who sent the email and travels to Cali to find the recipient. What transpires is so far fetched that I found myself laughing during what were supposed to be highly dramatic moments. I'm not blaming the actors because they had so little to work with, but do find fault with them for taking on such a ludicrous project in the first place.

Rating: DWYT (Don't Waste Your Time).

SOMETHING EVIL COMES is a not-too-bad Canadian TV movie, too tame to really hit the mark, and tending to go through the motions most of the time. It has the same budget as your usual indie and a random cameo from Margot Kidder, but otherwise it's business as usual with a bunch of characters trapped in a house and stalked by a psycho. The home invasion scenario offers a little suspense and it's nice to see X-FILES star William B. Davis in support.