This falls into the category of films that you hope will be good because of the cast, namely Michael Shannon, who is dependably great in everything he's in. But this film doesn't work.
The cast does a stand-up job with the script material given, but there is one fatal flaw in the story: why doesn't the girl phone the police?
Answer: because it would end the film.
Telling Grandpa once (who ignores his granddaughter and thus three people die and an innocent person is mutilated, but who is having a great life himself at the end of the film with no sign of guilt) is not a concerted effort to sort the situation out.
Someone else has pointed out it's a Misery carbon copy. Most definitely.
One more question: why smash a window and post out an invalided boy into a wheelbarrow (which looked unintentionally comical), when you could just put him in his wheelchair and walk him to the front door? We'll never know.
The cast does a stand-up job with the script material given, but there is one fatal flaw in the story: why doesn't the girl phone the police?
Answer: because it would end the film.
Telling Grandpa once (who ignores his granddaughter and thus three people die and an innocent person is mutilated, but who is having a great life himself at the end of the film with no sign of guilt) is not a concerted effort to sort the situation out.
Someone else has pointed out it's a Misery carbon copy. Most definitely.
One more question: why smash a window and post out an invalided boy into a wheelbarrow (which looked unintentionally comical), when you could just put him in his wheelchair and walk him to the front door? We'll never know.