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Salem (Nicole D'Angelo) and Remy (Christina Lo) would be described as a
"cute couple" under normal, circumstances - just, the
circumstances are anything but normal, as after a brutal crime, the nature
of which will only be revealed gradually over the course of the movie, the
two hide out in a house they've broken into, knowing the owner's on
vacation over the summer, and now they're waiting for Tyler, who's got the
loot and is supposed to arrange for a getaway for the three of them - it's
just that Tyler doesn't come, and Salem and Remy have no way to contact
him, having smashed their cellphones to be untraceable. Now Salem and Remy
are very much in love with each other, but being in each other's company
all the time is getting on their nerves, and that Tyler just fails to show
up day after day is getting to Remy as well, as she hardly knows him, and
she starts getting a bit jealous as Salem seems to trust him a bit too
unconditionally. Things get worse though when Remy starts seeing a masked
man (Chris Spinelli) inside the house, wearing a mask just like they did
while committing the crime, and that gets her on edge - especially since
Salem doesn't see him, and even searches the house and comes up empty
handed. Salem finds other things though, things that aren't supposed to be
in the house, like tools they used for their crime, a video of the scene
of the crime, and even her phone, inexplicably unsmashed. By then, Remy
also starts to act weird, at times as if possessed, while Salem has a
secret she knows she has to tell her sooner or later, a secret that Remy's
quite sure not to like ... A pretty effective piece of slowburn
horror that does a great job of playing up the mysterious aspects of its
story and manages to feed the viewer just as much of the whole as one
needs to know at any given point, as with each revelation the film only
gets more horrific. And a spectacle free directorial effort really helps
highlighting the psychological aspects of the story, while the very
natural performances by the two leads keep things grounded throughout -
all of which is making this one a pretty creepy experience.
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