This movie is an over-directed version of "The Night of the Hunter". Josh Lucas replaces Robert Mitchum stalking two young siblings for the fortune they ran away with after Lucas (Mitchum) murdered their single-surviving parent.
In both movies, the stalker has a supernatural ability to go without sleep - to know where to look and whom to charm to stay one clue behind his prey. The older child will eventually destroy the fortune that he was previously willing to die to protect.
Mitchum's psycho-Evangelist portrayal transcended every other uninteresting aspect of "Night of the Hunter". In "Undertow", it's Shiri Appleby's character, Violet - a strange homeless tramp with a huge wardrobe of rags. She looks like she rubs her face in mud, and her bipolar con-artist/savior is the only reason to sit thru this self-indulgent exercise.
self-indulgent exercise.
In both movies, the stalker has a supernatural ability to go without sleep - to know where to look and whom to charm to stay one clue behind his prey. The older child will eventually destroy the fortune that he was previously willing to die to protect.
Mitchum's psycho-Evangelist portrayal transcended every other uninteresting aspect of "Night of the Hunter". In "Undertow", it's Shiri Appleby's character, Violet - a strange homeless tramp with a huge wardrobe of rags. She looks like she rubs her face in mud, and her bipolar con-artist/savior is the only reason to sit thru this self-indulgent exercise.
self-indulgent exercise.