My son drug me to the midnight showing of this movie. Personally I enjoyed the experience of the atmosphere of the audience more than the movie itself. That is not to say that it was not a good movie, because it is a great movie! The only thing that was a little too graphic and gory for me was the scene where dogs are eating a young man. The sounds of the man screaming were incredibly haunting to me, and you could kind of see his face.. That is an image, as a visual learner, I will probably never get out of my mind. I hate horror movies and being scared so truly not my thing. However I really liked the plot line of the movie, and my son said he was impressed in that the movie followed the book pretty closely, all but one thing (how the heroine got her pin). I enjoyed the romantic storyline except of course this all-American would have loved to have seen the heroine and her real boyfriend together. My heart broke for him as he watched her kiss Peter.
All in all, I would really recommend this movie. Although it's more geared toward teenagers than the young or the old. :)