I stumbled across this movie in 2020, a few years after its release. I've enjoyed most everything Topher Grace has done, so I decided to give it a whirl.
my original review of this movie was entirely too long, so I decided to delete the entire thing and start over in a more succinct manner. Here is the basic plot...
*chatacter gets released from psychiatric hospital,
*character goes home to big spooky mansion which may or may not be haunted,
*guy suffers from frequent hallucinations,
*character has a terrible parole officer who steals his medication,
* character meets overly-attractive female grocery clerk, guys supposedly in prison the brother shows up at a nowhere,
*character doesn't know if he's imagining the entire thing or not.
We learn that the character and his brother had been convicted of murdering two girls in their teenage years. The older brother is serving life in prison, or may have escaped and is now living in the house...
Most women would have run screaming from the home of a murderous psychopath but instead this one decides to frequently hang out at his house, alone.
Now for the unimaginative twist...
The brother escaped from prison and returns to the home seeking money, his little brother isn't sure whether or not he's a hallucination, the older brother then murders the parole officer and attempts to murder the attractive grocery clerk, we discover that their mother was being held hostage under the pool in a secret room by their father for the last 20 years, fight fight fight, gunshots cause the pool water to come crashing into the room, the main character and the hottie clerk escape, leaving the older brother to drown...the end.
All in all this was an entertaining movie, however I felt the twist ending was particularly predictable. I don't regret watching the film, I just wish it had a more imaginative ending.
