The premise of this movie really have me high hopes that it would be a titillating thriller. Unfortunately, I almost fell asleep a couple of times during the first 45 minutes because the story failed to hold my interest.
The movie starts with a little girl having trouble sleeping because of something scary in her room. Her mother comforts her and puts her back to bed but her closet door reopens on its own and as the girl hides under her covers, we see the silhouette of a creature standing by her bed. When the covers are pulled away, the creature is gone and her mother is there to once again comfort her.
We flash forward several years. Savannah is a best selling author of a book that (this movie's) Stephen King said chilled him to the core. But all is not well with her. We see her visit her psychiatrist to discuss her progress in leading a normal life. We learn that she's dating Jack, and that she feels guilty for her mother's suicide all through exposition during the counseling session.
She eventually goes on a trip with her boyfriend and two of their friends to spend some time in a remote cabin 6 hours away. This is where some things fail to add up.
They leave at around 10:30 AM, but even though it's only a 6 hour drive, they make it to the cabin after nightfall. They run into Savannah's brother(?) sitting in the dark cabin, which seems very random. When Paul, one of Savannah's friends, goes missing later that night, his girlfriend (Faith) assumes he went for a run. He's still missing the next morning so they go looking for him.
At this point things go from 0 to 60 as Faith finds Paul's corpse in the woods near the cabin. She accuses Savannah because of an audio recording Paul apparently made on his phone the night before. The recording is of Paul confronting Savannah and sexually propositioning her to buy his silence because of a secret he's uncovered in the cabin. It just goes off the rails from there. Without further spoiling things, Savannah ends up being the only one from that group alive at the finale.
The acting is pretty wooden and boring. Andy Buckley's portrayal of the sheriff is well done but that's about it. There aren't any real scares in this movie, and there are too many cuts between present day, the past, and a different subject also occurring during present day. I wouldn't say this is the worst film, but it's not really worth watching.
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