A passably moment-by-moment entertaining but ultimately totally unrewarding 1408-style exercise in, “Ooh! I thought of another ‘scary’ thing we can have happen!” for 90 minutes. In this case, Robert Englund chews the scenery admirably—perhaps the movie’s only real redeeming point—as a demon who must impregnate a woman every 100 years to reincarnate, and, for reasons not clearly explained, also chooses to use his last night before reincarnating to visit an old police station on the last night before it closes down to exact revenge on a tough-as-nails former police sergeant adversary and his entire former department by going through the station doing whatever “scary” thing the writers can think of to kill the tough-as-nails officers one-by-one in “scary” ways, or manipulate them into killing each other, using his demonic powers, which are, apparently, whatever the writers need them to be in that moment. Also somewhat amusing for the spectacle of ‘N-SYNC’s Joey Fatone doing a somewhat passable acting job as a tough-as-nails cop. More passable than I expected from someone from ‘N-SYNC, anyway.
