Stevieboy666
It would take a fair amount of skill to keep a very thin plot in a single location (in this instance a house) interesting over a period of 88 minutes. Watching this I found myself looking at the clock several times, wishing it would either step up a gear or simply end. The acting is fine & there are some pretty graphic kills, so it's by no means a bad movie. Just a bit slow and predictable.
LeonLouisRicci
This is quite a slick looking low-budget entry that is nothing if not well shot. It is a combination of Slasher, Home Invasion, Psychological Movies that has nothing new to offer. A sleek vista of external pretty structures and people who can be extremely ugly internally.This is finely acted and the killings are brutal and there is an air of tension but it all seems rather vapid considering all the carnage with some incestuous carnal knowledge that is hardly explored or explained.It is so thinly written and the short running time hardly allows for much in-depth display of interesting complex psychopathy. The Movie moves along with some intrigue but it is all as anorexic as the supposedly alluring and sexy dominatrix.After all, it is worth a view for fans of perversion and playful and detached sociopaths who look like the ordinary, well groomed neighbors who may live on your block in the last house on the left. The original owners should have put a panic room in the cellar. View with low expectations and you might find this OK from a first time Director that has a better eye for architecture than the arcane or so called Cult Movies.
scoup
If you like watching anorexic women - watch this movie. It is disturbing and distracting to watch Trish Helfer walk around in a bikini with neck bones, hip bones, rib bones and the rest of her bones poking under her skin. I spent a good majority of the film wondering why no one had the decency to tie her up and force feed a couple burgers while explaining that she looks like a walking skeleton and this would scare the audience more than the sub par script.You also have to suspend some reality to believe that the brother is afraid of her. One quick slap and he could have broken all those protruding bones in her 80lb body.Anna Paquin and Steven Moyer - just a bait and switch since they had about 10 minutes of screen time.End of movie - no idea since I turned it off. Then I ate a sandwich. Try it sometime Trish.
LegionAvalon
I think I'm right in saying that this is director/writer Andrew Paquin's first major outing and I'm sad to say, he's in the wrong job.There are some good to great performances here, but it's only the acting that really saves it. The characters are shallowly written, I really didn't care too much about any of them. Anna Paquin hardly gets a line, but Brian Geraghty is suitably 'disturbed'.The film is carried very much by the evil Tricia Helfer, who alone might swing the male vote in tight and revealing costumes.The plot sways from predictable to juvenile and never really raises it's game at all. The 'gore' is of a strawberry-jam level, with coy cut-aways that don't even put it in the 'Slasher' genre.The last ten minutes were interesting but by then I was looking for a knife myself.... What were the producers thinking?3/10.
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