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6/10
A likable enough if somewhat flawed genre effort
kannibalcorpsegrinder23 February 2024
Hoping for a quiet holiday together, a couple looking for a chance to reset their struggles and get on track with their lives suddenly find the house under attack by a crazed group of antisocial hermits who don't appreciate them living in the house and must team with a reluctant ally to escape.

This was a fairly enjoyable feature. One of the stronger aspects here is the somewhat enjoyable setup that provides this with a lot to like/ the early half here getting a handle on the couple and their trip, why they need to be there, what the intent behind it is for, and how they interact with each other, provides the kind of fun starting point to get to know who they are for the later shenanigans to have an impact. That comes off incredibly well with the brutality and viciousness that come about with their intervention into the house and conduct of the overwhelming assault that takes them hostage. These scenes come about with an alarming sense of cruelty for the confrontations are quite unpredictable with how it all plays out, with the vicious streak of the intruders making it hard to predict what's going to happen next and it causes some incredibly fun back-and-forth contests to emerge featuring some brutal moments to come about throughout here. All that aside, however, the film still manages to feature a few major drawbacks to hold it back. The main detriment here is the usual factor that comes about with found-footage films in that it's incredibly easy to predict what's going to happen since the genre only has two storylines. This one tends to follow the first setup, where the main couple are under attack by vicious criminals and must try to survive their brutal onslaught which doesn't provide much of a chance to do something original or unique with the material. Rather, it tends to follow along many of the usual beats here with the expected outcomes all managing to be utilized here so that the only real difference in what's going on is done by the brutality on display. As well, there's also an assortment of issues here about the main family that comes in to terrorize them who have no real purpose and a lame motive for wanting to do them in which results in some lackluster and somewhat underwhelming sequences.

Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
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5/10
Reject, Wrong Turn.
hiramthreets15 November 2023
This movie could have been so much better, if it had a bigger budget. Cheap thrills abound. A couple is terrorized by a clan of weirdos. A deranged psychotic family of three. Its a foreign film dubbed with poor English, edited wrong. Puts you in the mind of genre classics like Wrong Turn and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Yes, those movies are much better. But if this movie would have been made better I could see the potential. It was spoiled by the bad editing and cheap production thrills. But definitely an A for effort because I love these type of films. I say don't go into it with high hopes.
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