Jason Toth

This is literally my first movie review, but I am doing it with the sole purpose of making sure that no one else wastes their time watching this movie. If you’re looking for an anticlimactic story of a grieving widow and her contact wearing son who loves to run, moving onto a mountain to die for no apparent reason, with absolutely no resolution, then you’ve come to the right place. From the intentional car death of the father that makes no sense, to the death of Chris in a car, which also makes no sense, to the torture and death of the mother and son, which again, makes absolutely no sense. 1. Why was the father killed? The driver very obviously targeted him and ran him down. Was the driver arrested? Was the father a bad person and it was revenge? Was it because he forgot to get the milk? No answers. 2. What was the purpose of Margaret? She added nothing to the plot other than Alzheimer’s, a living dead husband, and banana bread. 3. About 147 camera techniques were used, for no purpose other than to have them in the movie. Perhaps the budget spent on that could have been used towards a better script. 4. Chris was literally just there. Period. Why portray him as possibly being the evil person who just went to the basement and made base camp by the water heater that he constantly turned off? Why did he have to die? Why would he come stay over at a random womans house, that in totality, he has talked to for about 8 minutes in his entire life? 5. What was the killers motive? Why did he even exist? There was absolutely no narrative behind his character. None. I could see if it was Margaret’s deranged living dead husband who gets “sun downing” syndrome and goes buck wild at night and kills the villiage people in a mental rage. But no. No explanation. I could also see it being the father, who faked his own death for insurance money only to find out that she spent it or lost it. I could also see it being a former secret lover that got jealous of the husband, killed him, and then went for the family and got jealous of chris being in the house. But unfortunately, no resolve is given. In the end we are left with a dead mom with broken fingers (who could have totally survived being stabbed), a dead man named Chris (who’s death has no back story or sense of how and why he was killed), a dead husband, a dead seeing impaired, marathon running son who apparently died from hypothermia or a broken heart, and a woman named Margaret...who loves baked goods. If you have an hour and a half to spare out of your day, I would suggest taking a nap or drinking bleach before I suggest you waste your time watching this movie. The best part of the movie was the house. An inanimate object. If that doesn’t speak volumes, I don’t know what will.