The movie wasn't bad enough to the point that I couldn't finish it, but it was bad enough that I just had to leave a review. It had an interesting concept and potential, but because of poor writing the plot and story fell flat. First of all it was totally unexplained why they were all compelled to get the tattoos, why they were cursed, and how the curse exactly worked. Then the characters were written to be so terribly dumb, like it was obvious after the first guy died and the one girl suffered a couple of lost points that apparently their fates were linked to the tattoo numbers and that leaving the house or harming someone would affect points. But they continued to act oblivious to this and even verbally attacked the one person in the group who had managed to simply guess this incredibly obvious trend.
Then, after watching these characters be dumb for the entire movie the writers decided to have the final victim killed off by this creepy old guy, who, gauging by the incredibly large number tattooed on his neck, has been killing off groups of vacationers for some time now, and gaining their life points as a result. But once again, it is unexplained who this guy is, how he ties into their situation, and why he's there. The movie would have been decent if it just ever explained why anything in the film was happening!
Review of Where the Skin Lies
