Robert Gold

I’m a big King fan and elements of his writing definitely come through in this horror flick. However, Macht’s cheesy attempt at a New England accent ruined it for me. Whatever he was trying to do, it didn’t work. It was a weird mix of southern plantation and New England with a lot of swapping back and forth. The exterminator and the drifter were well acted as was the lead female role. The movie delivers its horrors in a slow burn in a decrepit New England textile mill. Plenty of vermin-based horrors and poor behavior by locals along the way.

Great acting and scenery can’t rescue this cesspool of a story where the bad choices of a few result in the deaths of those around them. Normal people would have made very different choices. I found the grandparents to be creepy and entitled while the antagonists were just bad people, as antagonists are supposed to be. In the middle was a widow who also chose to opt into a family of thugs. All while the son clung weepily to everyone while having no real endearing personality traits. I don’t recommend wasting time on this movie.

I didn’t find this movie to be worth the time. The first 1/2 is very slow and any relevant information could have been told in 10 minutes. Plenty of noticeable CGI. The main reason I gave it two stars is because the cast did an OK job for the most part. Also, I find these older settings with the odd accents to be unrelatable.