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I have kept my eye on this film for a while.\u00a0 It has been in some lists of horror to watch.\u00a0 On top of that, it stars Dominic Monaghan, who was in “I Sell The Dead” with the great Larry Fessenden.\u00a0 This is directed by Carles Torrens, who directed Apartment 143 and apparently did a short for ABCs of Death 2, but was only a finalist.\u00a0 Apparently, there is an ABCs of Death 2.5 which has the 26 finalist submissions, so that is something for me to find.\u00a0 Really, just call it part 3.<\/p>\n

As for this film, it’s complicated at times, lots of role reversals.\u00a0 I’ll set the stage for you.\u00a0 Seth bumps into Holly on the bus one day and knew her from school, and he starts crushing on her, even obsessing.\u00a0 He gets advice from his co-worker, Nate, who he works with at an animal control type job.\u00a0 Nate encourages Seth to be more confident because Seth is most certainly not that.\u00a0 Seth goes to the restaurant where Holly works and tries being confident, but is over aggressive, in way over his head, and makes shit uncomfortable.\u00a0 She gets mad at him, he sends her flowers anonymously.\u00a0 She thinks it is from this ex, Eric, that drunk dialed her the previous night.\u00a0 She meets up with Eric at the bar where he works to talk about the flowers.\u00a0 Seth comes along outside, and he is too aggressive again, gets attacked by Eric, but he gets Holly’s journal.<\/p>\n

Seth gets this great idea to build a cage, break into Holly’s house, sedate her, kidnap her, and put her in a cage.\u00a0 Oh yeah, the cage is in some hidden area in the building that he works.\u00a0 So that shit happens.\u00a0 We find out that Holly is a tad psycho, and Seth is psycho.\u00a0 They keep mindfucking each other until the end.<\/p>\n

I won’t spoil it any further.\u00a0 Either this sounds like a good premise or it doesn’t.\u00a0 I like the idea.\u00a0 It reminded me of a film called Honeymoon (Luna de miel), from 2015, not to be mistaken with Honeymoon from 2014.\u00a0 Here’s the thing, I was bored far too often in this one.\u00a0 The twists and turns happened, but they weren’t all that great, for me at least.\u00a0 I found myself easily distracted during the film, and that always concerns me.\u00a0 If a movie is good, I pay attention.\u00a0 The ending is a real, well if you’re a veteran horror viewer, not at all surprising.\u00a0 For the uninitiated viewers, the ending may be a pleasant surprise.<\/p>\n

I can honestly see some people go as high as maybe a 7 or as low as a 3 without overreacting because millennials think everything is epic.\u00a0 Goddamnit, I keep telling myself to stop being an old curmudgeon, but it is fucking difficult dealing with the overreactions of today’s youth.\u00a0 This is a mixed bag for many viewers.\u00a0 More torture would have been fun, for me at least.\u00a0 More murder could have added something.\u00a0 Nudity could have gone a long way for this type of film.<\/p>\n

I really thought the best thing about this was the performances of the top 4 players.\u00a0 Props to Dominic Monaghan (Seth), Ksenia Solo (Holly), Jenette McMurdy (Claire), and Da’Vone McDonald (Nate).\u00a0 I also think that Sean Blakemore as the detective was really good.\u00a0 This is why you can’t reasonably give it too low of a score.<\/p>\n

Rating: 4.7 I just don’t think I have any real rhyme or reason to rewatch this one.\u00a0 It was well done, but zero replay value in my mind.\u00a0 Good concept, but missing key ingredients to make it memorable.<\/p>\n

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