 
A
rebellious young runaway Summer Matthews
(Ashley Greene) leaves her mother's trailer home
in order to search for her estranged father that
she never met in which she carries a gun for
protection while hitchhiking as well as trying to
shoplift food in order to survive.
She meets up with a clean cut looking guy
Tom Hoxey (Peter Mooney) in which he seems to
have eyes for her and she agrees to stay at his
house while she goes on her search only to find
that him and his family are a bunch of serial
killers and have been stalking her as they chain
her up in a cellar where there were other victims
who died there but Tom seems to let her free only
if she promises to be his girl and stay in the
house in which she is left no choice in order to
survive.
At first when I heard of the title
I was thinking that this might be a vampire flick
taking place in the summer so it interested me
into checking this indie flick out but I was
watching as it shows this rebellious girl named
Summer hitching a ride and the driver was trying
to come on strong with her and she gets tough
with a gun which seemed to be impressive for a
start of a horror movie and then she shoplifts
and almost gets caught by the local sheriff but a
good looking guy next door type named Tom helps
her out by getting away and I thought with them
trying to get to know one another was a total
drag as none of it looked convincing at all to me
that they were striking a friendship.
There's good shots on Summer in a corner
store and shoplifting as well as a sheriff approaching
her and then she tries to make a run for it which
seemed cheesy but in a decent energetic fashion.
There's cheesy discussions between Summer and Tom Hoxey at a bar which didn't
seem natural and too planned out.
There's also takes on a lustful scene between the
two of them which didn't seem to look impressive
either and you could tell the two of them weren't
into it either.
Yet there's a good moment with her discovering something twisted and then getting
energetic by pointing a gun towards Tom and then a good approach by Gaia Hoxey knocking her out. Then a good energetic
argumentive discussion between her and Tom about the situation of what she did.
However, with her discovering something wrong at
his house was spooky and him handcuffing her to a
basement was quite impressive on what can happen
if you hitch a ride or go home with a stranger
showing that something like this could happen
which shows some cheesy psychological horror
elements in the stroy as well as the surroundings
with skeleton heads and another girl slowly dying
in this cellar which will make any viewer cringe.
What's crazier is he has a mother who supports
this as well as a sleazy father who is hardly
ever home and picking up hookers. I was thinking
to myself that all of this was twisted and insane
which is not necessarily a bad thing for a horror
film at all.
A good shot on Summer trying to
talk to supporting character Amber with a nice shot on her
screaming and crying as well as good struggling
moments on her trying to reach for a tool and
then collapsing with good graphic shots on this.
There's some creepy moments with Summer being
unchained only to be Tom's love for life and
staying in the house in which there's many
moments thinking that she's given in and
brainwashed to be with him forever and being one
of the demented members but you see moments on
her trying to escape but just when you think she
managed to get away her plan backfires which is
definetely guaranteed to keep your eyes peeled to
the set.
Good shots on Tom having a
dysfunctional moment with Gaia and
getting physical towards her by twisting her arm
and then the two of them nearly seducing one
another in which this looked
very twisted.
There's good shots on Summer and Tom at a table eating with Gaia trying to
act peaceful telling Summer about her
living with them which looked too peaceful that
it's horror like on how she tries to act pleasant
but there's something wrong with the picture.
There's a good moment on a flashback sequence
with Summer having an attitude towards
her
mother acting drunk and obnoxious in which this moment looked very
dysfunctional with the two of them together.
There's a calm moment with her talking to Tom telling her she loves
him and then it breaks with him acting physical
to her and chaining her up which looked pretty
intense.
A good moment with Gant Hoxey eyeing Summer chained and acting sleazy like
towards her which looked quite powerfully done
and shot.
Then alot of intense moment involving the family
on pressuring one to dare kill the other which
would psych any horror fan out which was well put
in and saves the film from being just average.
There's a great moment with him down in the cellar and getting creepy towards Jessie speaking coldly towards her with a knife close
to her in which this moment really leaves a chill
down your spine as well as good shots on him
cutting off the straps of her shirt which looked
brutal.
A good moment with Jessie in his
vehicle pulling over with Summer sitting
next to him and a good shot with his hand on her
leg telling her what he plans to do as well as
her acting quiet like answering.
Nice effects shot looking up on Summer plunging down with a knife looking vicious which
was very impressive.
Bottom line is this film was twisted and in lots
of good ways but some of it is a bit trite with
some boring moments in which you think to
yourself when is the good horror going to start
with this film as all this maniac family is ever
doing is keeping this young lady in their house
and chaining her up when she doesn't obey the
rules. Most of the story is that way but there's
some good intensity. You think to yourself that
there won't be a good ending but you're in for a
shocking surprise.
The acting is not too bad in which
the lead actress Ashley Greene (Summer
Matthews) really knew on how to act like a
rebellious type of runaway in the film with her
blunt behavior as well as acting tough when she
needed to be. She also knew on how to act
frightened and confused about things too showing
a diversity with what she does in the film too. A great moment with her picking up a kitchen knife towards her onscreen mother as this
looked quite intense. A great moment with her running towards her fellow actor and screaming
intensely telling him to take her with him which
looked intense and full of adrenalline as well as packing a good punch.
Peter Mooney (Tom Hoxey) seemed like just a
line reader at first but he certainly gets into
character quite well by being forceful and
intimidating with his cold speaking and silent
attitude when he speaks that it comes across as
someone unpleasant the way he does this. He knew
how to act violent and menacing too in certain
parts of his character when he needed to. Great intensity with her running in and screaming intensely after spotting
something terrifying.
Barbara Niven (Gaia Hoxey) does well as the
disturbed mother in the flick in which she came
across nicely as someone who looks deceivingly
normal but is really crazy and shows a good
basket case type of behavior too. She also does
well trying to act normal but almost snapping to
show what she's really like if you cross her.
Stephen McHattie (Gant Hoxey) who played the
Dad stole the film with his performance in which
he does well by acting evilly sleazy with
everything he does towards other women plus
really briught out a great coldness to his
spekaing along with an outrageous anger when he
was about to do a killing or something just as
terrible. Good moment taking out a bunch of knives and seeing which one
to use which looked insane on how he performed
by doing all of this.
Cinthia Burke (Jessie) was another terrific
actress in her supporting role as a toughie
tomboy chick in this flick. She was great by
acting crude, demanding and forceful with
everything that she does and doesn't seem like
the type of person that you's want to piss off
else you're up the creek with a paddle. A good moment with her getting tough and trying to get away
as well as her getting vicious towards her fellow actress and demanding her to get
her out of the house which looked highly
energised. She does well getting aggressive and
tough with someone during an intense moment. A terrific raging moment challenging someone to shoot her in which
she shows terrific intense rage pressuring him
with all of this. She
studied this part inside out as you can tell.
Paul Whitney (Sheriff) was the only actor I
didn't care for but really knew on how to act
like a dorky sheriff who's sarcastic and not
taking his job seriously at all. I will give him
credit for that but he seems a little too comedic
for my liking with all that he does in the film.
A head is cracked open with blood
flowing hitting a cement ground
There's blood splattered in Summer's face after a
guy sitting next to her in a car is shot in the
head.
There's some bloody stabbings at the end of the
film.
There's
lots of dark sounding screeching noises as well
as many bumping and thumping sound effects too in
the film with low music, wind and hissing sounds
playing throughout the story all composed by Steve Gurevitch |
