I don't see this movie as a bad one at all. I am not going to rehash the movie because many have given a synopsis but this area is for reviews and not a synopsis of the storyline. This was a very eerie movie and not at all boring. I wouldn't call it a horror movie but a psychological thriller. Many in this genre have murdering psychopaths within them. Even though the story could be glossed over as reminiscent of this or that movie it still had it's own differences. Movies like this always have the characters doing something that the average person would not. They have to have that to move the story forward. I guess I'm the only one that noticed at the end, there was one who died, one who was only hurt and another not hurt at all. There appeared to be three of them. So to me there were three brothers who were identical and were doing all of these things. This explained why the old man said he saw him doing things a normal person couldn't because there wasn't just one. There were three, triplets. Whether it was one that could divide up supernaturally, that was never covered in this story and since one actually died I came to the conclusion by the ending there were three of them related to each other causing all the mayhem. They were all crazy and working together to terrorize first the father and next the daughter when she moved into her father's house. Obviously the whole town was scared of him (them) because they couldn't figure out how they could do some of the things like be in three places almost at the same time. The ending explained it.
The acting was very good and Rose McGowan was an excellent choice for the lead. As for the actor playing the paperboy looking too old, I have seen seventeen year-old young men that big and looking that old. Slicing and dicing all of the reasons they chose these actors particularly isn't helpful in a review. They wanted the characters to look a little off. It made you wonder what was going on and if there was something supernatural happening. I came to the conclusion there was not. There wasn't enough information to make one think so other than he was psychopathic. The conclusion explained why he could be on the phone and then be killing someone in the house. The character bled and could be hurt but it wasn't always the same person. I liked the movie and was never bored and on the edge of my seat. It isn't especially graphic which I liked. It could be that they had been separated at birth and found each other. I think they mentioned he had been adopted. I would have to watch it a second time I think to get all the details. The story left you wondering if the paperboy was a supernatural person or not. I decided that was what they wanted you to wonder and that the character was using the fact that no one realized there was more than one of them to terrorize the people of the town and Rose McGowan in particular. I am going to watch it again and see if I missed anything, because I thought the movie was very good. Not a prize winner but entertaining.
The acting was very good and Rose McGowan was an excellent choice for the lead. As for the actor playing the paperboy looking too old, I have seen seventeen year-old young men that big and looking that old. Slicing and dicing all of the reasons they chose these actors particularly isn't helpful in a review. They wanted the characters to look a little off. It made you wonder what was going on and if there was something supernatural happening. I came to the conclusion there was not. There wasn't enough information to make one think so other than he was psychopathic. The conclusion explained why he could be on the phone and then be killing someone in the house. The character bled and could be hurt but it wasn't always the same person. I liked the movie and was never bored and on the edge of my seat. It isn't especially graphic which I liked. It could be that they had been separated at birth and found each other. I think they mentioned he had been adopted. I would have to watch it a second time I think to get all the details. The story left you wondering if the paperboy was a supernatural person or not. I decided that was what they wanted you to wonder and that the character was using the fact that no one realized there was more than one of them to terrorize the people of the town and Rose McGowan in particular. I am going to watch it again and see if I missed anything, because I thought the movie was very good. Not a prize winner but entertaining.