Hearing of an inheritance, a group of friends heading out to check on a family-owned motel learn the owners are trying to force their incest-based beliefs on them and forces them to try to stop their murderous advances.
There's a lot to like here but it does have some pretty troubling factors in this. Perhaps the biggest issue is the films' rather cloying practice of keeping the hero's alive simply to provide for a plausible rescue later, despite everything else rational and logical in the story. If the family was that intent on ensuring their successful traditions, leaving the boyfriend alive is quite irresponsible and illogical on numerous levels. It contradicts their own rules about not leaving witnesses, causes the family to look incredibly incompetent and forces the final half to descent into a series of captures and escapes which is highly repetitive throughout this which makes this stick out quite well. As well, the concept of the family engaging in incest doesn't make them seem all that more imposing or frightening by engaging in this activity when their logic is belted out simply with one line about tradition which is inherently lame and ridiculous. After these elements, though, there's not enough to really beat this one down with its good points keeping this one somewhat interesting. The fact that there's the need for the constant boyfriend kidnapping means there's some great action here as the need to escape and getting caught again brings great scenes along. The first encounter in the woods with the couple being ambushed, the later attack on the RV and the numerous confrontations inside the house where the different brawling and shootouts occur are a lot of fun which manage to get some rather interesting times with this one as the focal point for the action is usually based on the kids having to outwit the familiar who always try to simply overpower them. Beyond the action, this produces nicely with some really enjoyable suspense scenes here with the opening attack in the motel room, the dive in the lake among the dead body and the final revelation about the family's incest-filled past being pretty chilling. Along with the rather brutal and bloody attack scenes in here, these are the film's good points.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, a sex scene and strong themes of incest.
There's a lot to like here but it does have some pretty troubling factors in this. Perhaps the biggest issue is the films' rather cloying practice of keeping the hero's alive simply to provide for a plausible rescue later, despite everything else rational and logical in the story. If the family was that intent on ensuring their successful traditions, leaving the boyfriend alive is quite irresponsible and illogical on numerous levels. It contradicts their own rules about not leaving witnesses, causes the family to look incredibly incompetent and forces the final half to descent into a series of captures and escapes which is highly repetitive throughout this which makes this stick out quite well. As well, the concept of the family engaging in incest doesn't make them seem all that more imposing or frightening by engaging in this activity when their logic is belted out simply with one line about tradition which is inherently lame and ridiculous. After these elements, though, there's not enough to really beat this one down with its good points keeping this one somewhat interesting. The fact that there's the need for the constant boyfriend kidnapping means there's some great action here as the need to escape and getting caught again brings great scenes along. The first encounter in the woods with the couple being ambushed, the later attack on the RV and the numerous confrontations inside the house where the different brawling and shootouts occur are a lot of fun which manage to get some rather interesting times with this one as the focal point for the action is usually based on the kids having to outwit the familiar who always try to simply overpower them. Beyond the action, this produces nicely with some really enjoyable suspense scenes here with the opening attack in the motel room, the dive in the lake among the dead body and the final revelation about the family's incest-filled past being pretty chilling. Along with the rather brutal and bloody attack scenes in here, these are the film's good points.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Nudity, a sex scene and strong themes of incest.