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Load of rubbish!!

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

The standard formula home break-in film consists of victims being tied up, men take a beating, women sexually molested, then the tables are turned. The more clever ones involve a mystery relationship somewhere for which clues are dropped and not just a creepy David Hess/Eric Roberts bad guy. 13 minutes into this film, we realize our bad guy is a professional and the formula may be adjusted.The film does a great job by building character by simply showing us the victim's home. They have a son who is at her mom's house while our once-a-weekers are out on date night. He likes vinyl, a man after my own heart and she likes to role play, a woman after my own...well. We get to know them the way the intruder knows them. Meanwhile the intruder remains a mystery to us, just as he does them.In many ways the "mechanical" aspects were good. The characters were established properly. The scene was done properly. The soundtrack was simple, but effective. The details worked well, down to leaving the faucet drip for your cat. (Cats prefer flowing water.)The problem with this film is that there was no dialouge interaction between our bad guy and the victims. This was done by designed, but made for a boring film. It made no sense creating talkies. The film was too stagnant even with the bloody scenes. You keep wondering, "Where is this going?" and when it gets there, you go, "Oh. Okay. That's it? That's the ending we waited an hour and twenty minutes for? Could we see more of the cheerleader's outfit please?"Parental Guide: Token F-bomb (WTF spoken). No sex or nudity.

Some reviewers liked this pile of doo-doo? Really? There is no reason whatsoever this movie should have ever seen the light of day. Here is a quick synopsis so you'll be spared wasting your time. Bad guy breaks in. Dons mask and jumpsuit. Makes himself at home. Couple comes home. Man gets blindsided with a golf club. Woman is tied to a radiator, and demands to see her husband. Bad guy scalps husband, evidently killing him. Woman gets free, finds husband's gun, shoots bad guy in neck. Bad guy gets husband's sword, cuts off woman's hand, still bleeding profusely, bad guy stabs wife repeatedly, killing her. Bad guy takes off jumpsuit and mask, calls police department to report death of 2 people, dons his sheriff's badge and waits for the cops. That's it. You're welcome.

*Contains Spoilers*This movie started out with such potential, your standard home invasion murderer movie but with a killer without a motive. The movie started out so strong, the killer, smart and sadistic planning carefully every move, eliminating the husband and quickly capturing the wife and tying her up. At this point, I am thinking, OK, here we go, time for this movie to set itself apart from the others of this type, and boy did it ever. The wife is absolutely without a doubt the dumbest character in any movie ever made. She escapes and gets a gun that was in a safe AND had a trigger lock on it, why there is a reason to have both, nobody knows, she moves quick and quiet down to the basement and starts digging through a tin of keys, doesn't even partially shut the door to block any sound, immediately drops the key and instead of picking it up and hiding to unlock the gun, she leaves the gun on the shelf and the key on the floor and hides in the room, the killer loses points here for not looking around the tiny room before going back upstairs. The wife now alone in the basement with the key and the gun should be able to easily unlock the gun, go upstairs quietly and shoot him, problem solved. But she does not. Wanting to maintain her title of biggest moron ever she sprints loudly up the stairs with the key in the lock but leaving it LOCKED!!!! wtf?!?! Obviously she is caught and cut on the leg losing the gun and locks herself in a room. More nonsense ensues and eventually she ends up on the floor battered, next to the still locked gun with the key in it while the killer, who is now catching up in stupidity, slowing picks out and admires a sword to kill her with, he comes back, she has (finally) unlocked the gun and proceeds to shoot twice, hitting him once in the next with a graze. He goes down slowly still holding the sword while she stands over him with 4 bullets left and refuses to shoot a man who is still holding a weapon and alive. She decides to stand really close, since apparently guns have a range of 3-4 feet and call the cops who she already called 45 minutes ago that hadn't shown up. While on the phone the killer is still alive and (shocker) cuts off her gun hand and then stabs her, kills her, gets up, changes clothes, and leaves.... It's like if they made her too smart it would've been a 45 minute movie because she passed up 2-3 easy chances to kill him and end it out of sheer stupidity

The writer/directer is horrible, either the girl is the stupidest person alive(well dead now because she had no intelligence at all) or she wants to die because her logic when handling the gun that was stored in the house makes no sense at all..... she has a chance to kill him and decides that its smarter to rush him with the gun trigger still locked... even though she could have easily unlocked it downstairs where she was safe... but no she had to run upstairs BEFORE she unlocked it. makes no sense at all. Although the mask was pretty unique and the movie did have a twist at the end but the killer had no motivation at all. NONE whatsoever.