0% chance that any of the ratings higher than a 2 are legit.

Every aspect of this movie is absolute bottom of gutter trash.

Acting: Elementary School Plays have better.

Writing: Nothing but inane chatter that has nothing to do with anything.

Story: *WHAT STORY?!?* It's just a bunch of morons sitting around chatting.

Filming: They randomly go in at weird angles, with characters off to one side as the camera focuses on nothing... or they zoom in so that only about 1/3rd of the face of the character talking is in frame...

CGI: ABYSMAL. They do some scenes where they are driving... I've simply never seen worse.

Directing: ? Just doesn't exist.

Characters: Shallow caricatures of stereotypes.

Absolutely nothing about this "movie" was of even a "barely passable" level. They wouldn't pass film school with trash like this.

Fun, original, inventive, fresh. It's highly intellectual, well-shot and will stick with you days after watching it. One of the better movies so far of 2024 with dozens of references to classic gilm. The negative reviews are likely from Hollywood PR firms or people expecting an alien invasion movie. This is more like Funny Games meets Psycho. It's very low budget but hard to tell while watching it as it looks much better than the budget suggests.

Basically, it's about three couples that head to a cabin in the future amidst what appears to be a great depression with gas prices as high as $50 a gallon. The three main couples represent the "elites" of modern society, one is the son of a senator, for example. They pick up a 4th couple, whose car has broken down and cell service isn't working, and who at the outset, appear to be elites as well, having studied at ivy league schools and so on. They offer to help them with getting a tow and bring them back to the vacation home they are staying at in a largely abandoned country setting where the economic situation has turned it into a ghost town. What follows after is what makes this movie great. Without providing spoilers, I will say,

We really enjoyed another movie from the same team at a film fest years ago so we decided to check this out when we received an email they had a new film out. Basically, like another reviewer said, it's like Signs meets Psycho with a twist. If you go into this expecting a big budget Hollywood movie, you'll probably be disappointed as this is more like The Seventh Seal in that the dialouge and character building have priority. I would say the film is more for people that are highly educated and can catch the references to other films, especially older ones. If you didn't go to college and study philosophy, or don't know who Jean-Paul Sartre is, you'd probably want to skip this movie just like the existentialist film creatives other films Scent, Eaters of the Dead, SARS-29 and Journey to the End of the Night, which are probably a bit too intellectual for casual viewers and will be more than they can chew and handle if they are expecting non-stop action and mindless entertainment. But if you like movies that make you think, and will stick with you days afterward, especially with the ending, then it's worth checking out.