... was that smart kid. Others make comparing to Home alone and The Shining, but I didn't draw the link.



The movie starts of good in setting up forboding and being unsure about grandpa and his treatment of the boy when the issues leave him their to attend a funeral. However, while he's gruff with the boy, the boy doesn't appear to be afraid of him and you see some real affection for him from grandpa.

At one point a young male comes over from the next farm and offers to show him around but the boy is leery and so are you, the viewer. We see grandpa smack him one and send him off and I wondered if he meant to molest the boy.

What I liked most about this is that for the most part the kid made good decisions.

*******Warning Major Spoilers Below**********

That day, grandpa has some chest pains he shrugs off. During the night, grandpa dies and it's already set up that there is poor cell service, the kid's cell battery is dying, and a storm is brewing, so you know the kid's going to be isolated.

When he finds grandpa dead, he goes to the next farm and we get a better gander at the young male and he's very creepy. The kid's on alert and is watching him carefully. When he gives him soda to drink, the kid is smart and switches glasses with him, and, well you have to watch the rest.

In the end you have some idea of family secrets. Let's just say, I think the situation in the basement was temporary to prevent the grandson from meeting this person.

*******Big Spoiler Ahead*********"" "" "" One thing though that you may not have noticed: on.the drive up, mom drops a dark blue bottle of pills. Clearly she has some issues with depression or anxiety as she found hey mother hung in the barn street dad had an affair when she killed herself. Pills from this same colored bottle is what the young male puts in the drink that got switched and we see him hallucinate grandpa. Time and again throughout the chase he sees grandpa.

At the end we see the kid, seeing grandpa looking back at him as the family drives away and I think this was a clever way to say some mental illness runs through this family on Grandpa's side and this kid may have it.

The kid does a great job! It really is like a scary version of Home Alone. Very enjoyable!

Okay...weird bonding movie or something?

-1 Star for how easily a wild cat was trapped

Oh nevermind. It became some some creepy forgotten son against grandkid vengeance movie.



-1 Star for the Apparition Giving advice thing, seemed unnecessary

+1 Star at least the forgotten son got one victory

-1 Star for the Procedural Errors at the End, among other flaws.

Okay lets face it, this one was a dud on many levels. Any reviews saying anything other than that are really stretching the truth.

3/10