I watched this film on Amazon Prime as it sounded as if it had an interesting premise. Unfortunately, though it was a bit entertaining in its own way, it failed to live up to the very promising premise. I am not sure what happened as the story seems to skip at points and seems to not want to fill in blanks to the viewers as if perhaps the book was required reading to fully understand what is going on. Though, having never read the novel, I cannot say if it fully develops the characters and their motives better or not; nor, if the story's plot holes filled in.
The story starts with a young couple at a quarry or something, enjoying the afternoon and into the evening. Well, during the night, the female is attacked and raped violently while the male is killed in brutal fashion. We are then introduced to a creepy dad and his daughter and the film loses points for the actor they got to play the father because at times he seems interested in his own daughter! Well, he gets called in to perform surgery on the girl who was raped and he also performs the autopsy...not sure that was a normal occurrence or not back then. Well, more rapes and murders take place and the doctor along with the chief of police and a news reporter try and figure out if these killings are being performed by a group or if their is something more hideous and evil at work.
There are just too many plots going around in this one and at times they wish to focus on the mundane rather than the grisly killings. What is going on? Who cares! Instead, lets focus on the father and daughter's relationship. Not sure if the dad was directed to look like a creeper or of it was just how he performed. Graphic killing, what do we do? Let's show the dad putting the moves on the news reporter! This approach left so many questions and a lot of the film underdeveloped.
So, the premise was good and they really do start off with a bang with the killing of the couple at the quarry; however, beyond that the film is fraught with incredibly long stretches of nothing interesting happening. The ending was predictable to me, despite all the misdirection and such so that did not help. I will say it is worth a watch as it held my attention, I was just left with too many questions and with an ending that just kind of fettered out...
The story starts with a young couple at a quarry or something, enjoying the afternoon and into the evening. Well, during the night, the female is attacked and raped violently while the male is killed in brutal fashion. We are then introduced to a creepy dad and his daughter and the film loses points for the actor they got to play the father because at times he seems interested in his own daughter! Well, he gets called in to perform surgery on the girl who was raped and he also performs the autopsy...not sure that was a normal occurrence or not back then. Well, more rapes and murders take place and the doctor along with the chief of police and a news reporter try and figure out if these killings are being performed by a group or if their is something more hideous and evil at work.
There are just too many plots going around in this one and at times they wish to focus on the mundane rather than the grisly killings. What is going on? Who cares! Instead, lets focus on the father and daughter's relationship. Not sure if the dad was directed to look like a creeper or of it was just how he performed. Graphic killing, what do we do? Let's show the dad putting the moves on the news reporter! This approach left so many questions and a lot of the film underdeveloped.
So, the premise was good and they really do start off with a bang with the killing of the couple at the quarry; however, beyond that the film is fraught with incredibly long stretches of nothing interesting happening. The ending was predictable to me, despite all the misdirection and such so that did not help. I will say it is worth a watch as it held my attention, I was just left with too many questions and with an ending that just kind of fettered out...