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Geeze. Watching him barely be able to see because his hair was in his eyes like a dog bothered me the entire movie. So it's a terrible movie. Spoiled athletically gifted and of course smart hs jock has everything he wants except the girl next door. So what does he do? What any teenage guy does and forces himself on her while she's babysitting his sister. Now mind you, for a hot shot athlete, this guy is skinny af, yet is able to overpower the girl that's the same size as him and was sober and wasn't caught off guard. Little sister he supposedly adores sees the whole thing and his first thought is to get violent, then leave her for dead? Excuse me?! The movie was a mess besides the whole plot everyone could see coming. The camera was always close up on the father's face for some reason, the mother was so overbearing it was unrealistic, the friends were 1 dimensional and terrible acting. I can't find one thing positive to say.

I'm not reviewing this film based on acting or production because it's not a big name film or one with a large budget. I'm instead going to rate it based on the story. The story was well written and kept me intrigued the whole time. I waited almost a year for this to stream in USA and honestly only watched this movie because Ty Simpkins is in it. While it was a good story, I can't relate Ty to his character. Ty grew up playing a sweet, borderline autistic child in almost every movie so it is hard to see him as a rapist and even accidental murderer. While I can't relate him to the character, he did a great job playing the part. I like that the story kept me guessing and I never knew exactly where it was going until it got there.

Took me a while to get round to this purely because some of the reviews were very negative. When I did eventually watch it, I was so glad I did. It's a great little mystery horror. Despite a low budget, the cinematography is great, the acting is on-point (with a few forgivable exceptions) and the script is clever. Theres' a twist that is sign-posted throughout but never obviously enough that it ruins the ending. I had suspicions of what was going to happen but still found the final reveal rewarding. There are several negative reviews on IMDB but, for the most part, these seem to miss the point. In particilar, a review titled "Doesn't make any sense" misses the point entirely. There's more than one way to interpret this film and there is a lot of scope to unpick the symbolism; that reviewer clearly just took the whole thing literally. As I said in the title, if slowburn horror appeals to you, and you don't mind lower-budgey (but still very well made!) indie films, you could do a lot worse than this!

Please don't waste your time watching this film there is pretending to be a movie. It is just stupid. It doesn't explain things, the storyline is completely idiotic. I don't even know what the hell this garbage is. It has no ending. The characters are not explained. Key events that happen in this pile of garbage are not explained. I've seen some pretty bad movies, but this doesn't even hint at what the movie is. I don't understand why Amazon prime has this in their selection of movies. It's ridiculous. It is a waste of time, it doesn't even allow the viewer to mentally come up with a conclusion for the movie. It is just garbage. Pure garbage.

I thought the bother and sister dynamic would be different. I can understand why he would be apathetic and cold towards her after his real sister goes missing, but it's like he doesn't care about her before that, either. When his mother wakes him up to tell him that Rose is missing, instead of getting worried and helping to look for her, he just turns over and goes back to sleep. When they 'find' her in a field and put her in an ambulance, he just sits there in the car. I really don't understand why the real Rose is so attached to him. He clearly couldn't give a crap about her. Also, what was with the father announcing to the party guests that he intended to bang his wife into next Sunday right in front of a small child? Seriously, WHAT was that about?

First of all, the acting is fine. I don't understand why IMDB reviewers love to jump on bandwagons and parrot each other like birds in a forest, but the acting is FINE. Some of the actors were obviously more talented and experienced than others (the mother was a clear standout), but everyone did their best and were believable, for the most part. The only really rotten apple was the titular child, Rose. She is not very talented, and delivered her lines with all of the aplomb of a grade school production of Hamlet. So, the reviewers criticizing the acting are either just being nasty for no reason, or just want to add another penny to the pile. Don't even bother listening to those people. As for the movie was fine, nothing to really call home about. It wasn't scary, the special effects were a joke, and the script was as simplistic as it gets with nothing even remotely unique happening. But the final act came out of left field, tied everything together, and made a truly mediocre film watchable. Let me tell you, those last 20 minutes had me INVESTED in what the ending was going to be. For that alone I bumped my review up 2 points. The real horror in this movie can be found in the horrible parenting on display. You raise a son to his college years, fill his head with all of these delusions of grandeur because he's good at throwing a ball, and wonder why he behaves the way he does. Bad parenting is scarier than any Hollywood monster could ever hope to be, because it CREATES those monsters. Teach people to do their damn jobs as parents and so many of societies issues would disappear overnight. That being said, movie? Mediocre. Ending? Worth the run time. Scariest thing about the movie? Entitled teenagers.