Simply A Masterpiece

Don't Believe the Hype

A different way of telling a story

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

PROS: Something simple to say good about this movie would be how terrific the plot line is in the movie. Everything made sense. There wasn't anything out of place or basic, most importantly there was nothing basic. I don't normally like to comment on the creativity of a movie, because that is subjective, but I will with this movie. I have never watched a movie that was so compelling. You were able to ignore the cons, because all you wanted was to figure out the premise of why the main character does what he does.CONS: Why Jennifer, why? I really love Jennifer Lawrence as an actress, I really do, but in this film she just sucked. The reason the acting felt so dull to me was because I had higher expectations for the cast, MAX THIERIOT from disconnect, and JENNIFER LAWRENCE from Hunger Games, but none of them could actually portray any real genuine emotions. I just sat and watched fake people being fake scared which made it hard for me to actually be scared. To add on, you have an ending which is so worthless and uninteresting. They had such a great idea and plot, then you get to the end and are left with the most cliché out of all endings. To top it all off you get a movie that is so poorly marketed and so poorly designed. Movie cover is awful, title is irksome, and the trailer is false, so overall you are stuck with a less than mediocre film with poor advertisement to make me not even want to watch it in the first place.www.chorror.com

After moving with her mother to a small town, a teenager finds that an accident happened in the house at the end of the street. Things get more complicated when she befriends a boy who was the only survivor of the accident. Unfortunately this is one of the weakest films Jennifer Lawrence has starred in she's pretty good but the twist with Max Thieriot pretty much destroyed the whole movie with a plot that has been done so many times and with a character that goes nowhere if this film had ghosts or anything i would be more interested in it unfortunately it doesn't it's just some dude who goes crazy and kills a bunch of people and gets locked up in the end with a close shot on his face telling us that he is "crazy".

Moving into a new house, a teen and her mom meet the lone survivor of a massacre still living in his old house and after ignoring her early warnings to stay away she decides to help him only to stumble across a deadly secret he's harboring in the house.Overall this one here is quite a bland and unworthwhile horror/thriller. For the most part this one is really undone by the fact that hardly anything at all even occurs in this one for the majority of its running time. As the majority of this one centers heavily on the family drama between the two, from the mother's worry about her daughter's troubling-to-her behavior and the daughter's worry about trying to uncover the secret of his lonely and horrific past, this bland narrative stalls the film almost immediately by not only running such a clichéd and unappealing piece but doing it so that there's an incentive here to wind through these pieces solely for the benefit of the target audience only. It's simply augmented only to make her the center of attention the whole time and make you side with her despite her mom being the clear-cut voice of reason and sanity, yet this one makes her out otherwise merely to feature her as often as possible. This results in plenty of lame non-horror thriller moments merely to try to make her seem as good-natured as possible rather than try to do anything with that storyline and it just feels too safe and clichéd enforcing these stereotypes. As well, that cuts into the action so drastically with these absolutely banal and lame set-ups that there's very little action that would be considered enjoyable, featuring such wasted moments as the girl home alone in her house after the first escape and the attempted attack on the couple in the car which are both interrupted before either actually gets into big stalking territory which is a big missed opportunity to actually feature something of interest during the overlong and excruciating setup. That also manages to hold itself back from the actual blood-and-gore set-up here with an absolutely minimal amount of bloody kills or gore, and it just all adds together into the film's overall watered-down feeling. While these here hold it down, it does have enough good stuff here to make it somewhat watchable which is almost solely based on the final half- house here which is quite fun. Once it's full twist is finally unleashed and given out, there's a lot of fun here with him holding her captive and tied up in the house as it then turns into a somewhat enjoyable series of escape and recaptures that do get a little old but still have some solid action throughout. The big battles down in the basement hiding room and then later on in the garage where there's plenty of good fun to be had with these few scenes offering up some rather enjoyable stalking. As well, the opening rampage does have some solid work for it with the basic elements of a stalking slasher working in quite fun ways Although these here are where it works, there's still some problems here.Rated PG-13: Violence and Language.

(12%) If you think really hard, and do a bit of mental arithmetic, you'll probably come to the conclusion that of all the bad horror movies of the past so many years this could almost be considered a mild highlight of sorts. But then again does this even qualify as an actual horror movie in the first place? As a very good portion of the runtime is much more of a drama than anything else with only a small section at the beginning and at the end even resembling a horror picture. So it doesn't really qualify as a horror, and the vast bulk of teen based drama that makes up everything else is just bland, forgettable, and flat. The only thing this has going for it is Jennifer Lawrence who is clearly too good for the lame material she's given to work with, and the twist isn't exactly terrible in a kind of camp fire style way, but it clearly lacks enough substance for it to be made into a full length movie. My advice: skip this and watch a real horror movie instead.