Bobby (Lonnie Chavis) and Kevin (Ezra Dewey) play on the same baseball team and are best friends. They also get kidnapped together. Kevin is locked up while Bobby remains tied up in the trunk of the vehicle. Bobby escapes and rather than go for help, it decides to enter the house and rescue Kevin which becomes a cat and mouse game.

This was another house where one can move around and hide. The kids were not believable as was the cop scene. Not much linear plot. We know something bad happens to the boys that are kidnapped, but the Polaroids showing a naked back didn't explain too well. Not the best kidnapping film out there.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.

The Boy Behind The Door has good and bad moments. The good things are the suspense building (nice intense moments that kept the movie alive),the decent acting (even from the kids) and the cinematography. The major bad thing about this movie was the extremely bad decisions that were taken by the kids but also by the villain. I get it that a kid doesn't think rationally but the amount of very bad decisions brought the quality of the movie down. It's good enough to watch once though, but I can't say I would watch it a second time in the future. For that there are better movies in this genre.

Now do characters here (and kids furthermore) act and do stuff that you would deem ... not helpful to their situation? You bet they do. Is it the old and established, well if they did everything right, we wouldn't have a movie kind of thing? Maybe in some cases yes, maybe you feel in most cases too.

But having said that, the actors (kids - which I can't stress out enough are not easy to find - well not good actor kids like the ones you get here at least) are really not to blame for anything here - if you actually don't like the movie that is.

If like me you buy into the story and suspend your disbelief, you'll have quite the ride. A well choreographed and well shot one at that. For an independent production with a limited plot and time - that is all I ask for.