enickoloff
I saw it on lifetime and thought it was a Lifetime original. That's really all you need to know.On the plus side, my boyfriend loved it because Amber Heard spends the movie in a bikini. So it's got that going for it I guess. So, 1/10 for quality, 7/10 for getting your boyfriend to shut up while you drink wine and watch bad movies.
Danii Disaster
A very average thriller that it's very entertaining. Too predictable, unexciting, and banal. No tension, no suspense.Whoever picked out the cast, is clearly not suitable to pick out actors for movies, and should be fired immediately. All wrong. The Mum's plastic nose was very distracting. And the girlfriend? Why was she even necessary? Her stumbling around half-naked in a tiny bikini for most of the movie, without actually adding anything to the story, served no purpose whatsoever. People watch thrillers for suspense; not to see a swimsuit model. The actor playing the troubled son was probably the most miscast actor here. It is hard to imagine someone less convincing than him in this role. The main character - the stepfather - was also miscast. This guy doesn't have what it takes to pass for a psychopath. I wasn't convinced by his acting or intimidated by his character for a second. In a word: an exceptionally lousily-cast movie.Don't even get me started on character development. There was none.The story sounded intriguing enough... but only in theory. It is sad how they took a promising plot and made it into something as flat and boring as this movie turned out to be.Stale, suspense-less, predictable, badly-executed wannabe thriller (read: snorefest). Basically, very average. To say the least. Wouldn't recommend.
charlee-cooper
I stayed up late on a work night to watch this and I'm disappointed. That's 90 minutes of my life I won't get back. The whole movie seemed to lack suspense. It was advertised as a slasher movie, but it contained no gore and the most pathetic excuse for violence. It was almost laughable. I feel like they blew the whole budget on Amber Heard's bikinis and underwear, so they couldn't afford any really good bloody or gruesome SFX. There was no story arc whatsoever, it just didn't seem like it was snowballing into this incredible edge-of-your-seat suspense, he ended up killing everyone in such obvious and stupid ways, there were some scenes that could have been made to be incredible, but they were cut short and you didn't really know what happened. Even the ending was anti- climatic. Personally I don't know how a serial killer who interacts with the victims families and close personal friends can evade capture. This is 2009 America, surely the man was caught on CCTV somewhere? I just found the whole story unbelievably boring and far fetched. A man deleted a photo you took of him off your phone and you deduce that he's a serial killer? Right until the final showdown, I was wondering when the suspense and drama would kick in.
Adam Peters
(10%) An immensely pointless waste of time and effort, that amounts to almost nothing, and it even takes way too long in getting there. This may have worked as a hour long TV show or maybe short film, but that would have depended upon a large overall improvement, as well as a change to both the script and the production, as there just isn't anything to this at all. If you really want to tone down the violence to your horror movie, as this does, which can actually be fine, then you need to offer something else in terms of tension, or mood, but this doesn't even have any of that, and it's not as if it is trying and failing because there's about half the movie's run time devoted to non-horror based elements. We see tons of the elder son and his girlfriend frolic in the pool, quite a bit of them all having dinner, and them attending some family parties, but only about 15-20 minutes of anything that even resembles horror. And even though this is solidly shot, and far from utterly unwatchable, there's still no getting away from how truly worthless this is.
AD
