Reviews

A Danish family meet a Dutch family on holiday and decide to visit these complete strangers in the middle of nowhere. The reasons why are explained when the Danish guy confides to the Dutch guy that his life is stifling. The director decides to downplay the tension until the big reveal and the film is creepy and intense. But the actions of the Danish family are so stupid! The mother realises thing are wrong and wants to leave the house, but she still goes out for an adults only meal and leaves her child with a strange Asian male babysitter who she's never met! She later decides it's time to leave in the middle of the night as she's found her child in bed with the Dutch couple. They drive off but realise that the daughter has lost her cuddly toy, we've been told the toy is important, so they decide to go back for it which is bad enough, but on arriving back at the house they immediately find it under a seat! Going back is bad enough but you would have thought the would have thoroughly checked the car, and when they found the toy outside the house they would/should have drove off again. When it comes to the big reveal the director chooses not to show all the photos. The Danish guy doesn't seem very shocked and just walks by a dead child face down in a Jacuzzi. He doesn't pick up anything to arm himself and calmly says to his wife we have to leave, in much the same way she said to him earlier in the film. Only then things were just a bit off, but now he's just discovered they are mass murders!! They're allowed to drive off but don't get far as their car runs out of petrol. Why? Have the Dutch couple drained it or are the Danish couple complete idiots. Take your guess. The Danish guy just leaves this wife and daughter to find help, you would have thought he would have filled his wife in on the dangers but I don't think he has, he does at least tell them to lock the car doors! But on his return he finds they are gone and with no sign of a struggle, the Danish guy finds them in the Dutch couple's car. Oh here's that nice Dutch couple we've fled from lets just get in their car. The Danish guy does the same when the Dutch couple's car approaches them, no struggle at all. It then gets worse. They cut out the child's tongue with little resistance, the Danish couple are told to strip naked and they do, they even remove their underwear without being asked to, and then they are stoned to death without defending themselves. The Dutch couple aren't even armed with any weapon. The Danish couple do ask the Dutch couple why are you doing this, and the man replies because you let us, and boy did they! The film was enjoyable in places but was ruined by the plot holes.