I want my rating back. But one is the lowest number of stars available. The actors must have been desperate. Don't waste your time watching this movie. I don't know how this movie even got made, who okayed it, who invested in it? This couldn't be further from a thriller! It's a joke! An unbelievably bad joke!

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only one. The other reviewers for this flick (at the time I write this) all appear to be as disgruntled with the film's resolution as I am. Up till then it had some semblance of a whodunit murder mystery but the whole thing falls apart when at least four of the principals have been pursuing murder and mayhem throughout the story, it's just that we didn't know it yet. At least Laurie Curtis telegraphed her involvement when she told Alice Hardy (Tracie Savage) that she had the heads of her barroom buddies in the trunk of her car. Little did we know. I guess director Mike Gutridge must have been going for the unexpected twist here, but all he did was confound the viewer by going off on tangents that never did come together. Gee, how would you like to be in Detective Meeker's (Ron Millkie) shoes trying to explain this one?

Alice Hardy is a middle-aged woman living in an idyllic country town. Everything seems to be going just right until new, unfriendly neighbours move in. Now townsfolk are being murdered.

I had low expectations for this. It looked like a typical B-grade horror movie, complete with a cast and crew of unknowns and poor production values. Yet, for more than half of the movie it was quite interesting. The plot was intriguing and the characters, especially Alice and Laurie and their relationship, quite engaging. Direction was hardly brilliant but worked and the performances were fairly solid, especially considering the cast.

The plot was set for a great conclusion, with the primary suspect as to who the murderer being so obvious as to clearly having to be a be a red herring, making the identity of the actual murderer even more intriguing.

Then it all fell apart. The red herring wasn't a red herring. Not satisfied with this, writer-director Mike Gutridge then takes the plot off on a random tangent. The ending is nonsensical and massively disappointing after the potential shown for the bulk of the film. Ended pretty much how I suspected the whole film would be before I watched it.