Stephen King - I should have known. All the ingredients are there. So as you can guess then, I have not read the novel this is based on. But I did like the basic idea/theme this is build upon. Actually the very beginning is very strong and that carries throughout the movie.

While it does that, the movie itself feels like it loses a bit of traction, once every character and piece is introduced. I can only imagine (no pun intended),how this is written and how much plays in the mind of the reader. As a movie there are limitations, especially when it comes to one dimensional portrayals - or what feels like paper thin motivation at least. Still enough suspense here and overall a good horror movie.

I almost didn't watch this movie because of the low ratings here but i decided to give it a chance and definitely not as bad as some people here claim , this movie first of all get you think what's going on and start analyzing things and i like that , so here is what i think about the movie , so i guess the whole point is that the grass is punishing people with sins by trapping them into a time loops where the same thing happen to them over and over endlessly! However, if you finally admit your wrongdoings and decide to change that the rock is giving you another chance and a way out , for ross he was a lier ! That's why when he touched the rock he was corrupted, he was trying to sell lies and tell them that by touching the rock you will be redeemed! Tobin touched the rock but nothing happened to him because he is a child and didn't have any sins !! Travis touched it but because he admit that he was wrong about leaving becky and that he was a jerk by doing that the rock gave him a chance to save becky and his own son , this means that travis was able to break the loop , as a result becky changed her mind about giving her child to that family and decided to go back and not go into the grass , this means also that travis doesn't have to come to look for them in the first place because they are not lost ( the loop is broken ) and becky and travis will be together again and maybe live together!

I had some hopes for IN THE TALL GRASS, the latest Stephen King adaptation made by Netflix, when I saw that the director was Vincenzo Natali, of CUBE fame. I like CUBE a lot and feel that it holds up even today, but this new single-location film is singularly lacking. There simply isn't enough plot to last the running time, so a lot of this is made up of repetitive scenes of characters running around calling for each other. As for the scares, well they're typical haunted house-style jumpy moments so little of interest there. On the plus side, Patrick Wilson gives another entertaining performance, and the cinematography isn't bad, but there's far too little of substance for this to be of much interest.