P2

A young woman working late on Christmas Eve (Rachel Nichols) becomes stranded in the parking garage with a car that won’t start and a parking attendant (Wes Bentley) who she comes to realize—to her horror—has been stalking her. Plausibility is conspicuously lacking in the script by Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur, and neophyte director Franck Khalfoun—so much so, in fact, that it doesn’t seem to have been a priority at all. Cheesy, cheap and laughable, the film might almost be a parody of slasher movies—if the attempts at humor weren’t just as lame as the cheap scares and Khalfoun’s benighted efforts to build suspense. Nichols plays the damsel in distress with fetching sincerity, but Bentley may want to switch agents; his career has fallen far from American Beauty—or even from Ghost Rider.