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Horrible plot, HORRIBLE acting, horrible characters (some of them totally useless to the story), and not even a hint of suspense. And what’s with Jeremy Davies character? No backstory as to why his character is such an abusive drunk? Just him yelling at, and beating his kids for being noisy or “dreaming”? Never mind he totally over acted in every scene. The kid who portrayed the main character is completely unbelievable . . .like reading lines off of cue cards the entire time. Ditto for the rest of the cast of teens. Worse than the horrible acting is the fact that the “Grabber” didn’t do anything accept try to give the kid some pretty disgusting looking food - TWICE. That’s it, until the end when he drives an axe through his unbelievably unperceptive uninteresting brother’s noggin. Like no one could have seen that coming from three thousand miles away. . .Aside from all of you 5 star reviewers of course. And, would someone please explain how the “Grabber’s” brother is smart enough to put together an intricate display of newspaper clippings and maps trying to triangulate the “Grabber’s” location as some sort of hobby, but fails to realise the “Grabber” is his brother who is hiding not one, but six dead bodies in his own basement? Out of nowhere, at the end of the film, like someone whispered reality in his ear, he fearfully opens the door to his own basement and discovers the truth? Now some of you 5 star people are going to type “but he was only staying with his brother, the “Grabber”, for a little while. How would he know what was in the basement?” Well, he was there long enough to put up a pretty involved map was he not? The door to the basement was clearly a hollow particle board door, and hardly sound proof, was it not? Now, if I had heard what sounded like DIGGING in the basement of a house I was staying in, I think I’d have the curiosity to find out why pretty much immediately. There are so many holes in this thing that describing it as Swiss Cheese is insulting to Swiss Cheese. I’ll say this, and I mean it from the very depths of my soul: If you think this is in ANY WAY a good, or even approaching being almost better than a bad movie, you either have zero sense of what watchable is, or you have the mentality of a ten-year-old child. Sadly, looking at the number of 5 star reviews on this garbage movie tells me a lot about humanity’s current state of intelligence. Don’t waste your time, and definitely don’t waste your money! For those of you who will ignore my review I’ll just say this now and get it out of the way, “I told you so”.