The issue I have with this film is that it reveals the identity of the Clovehitch Killer much too transparently and early enough to make the mystery a bit of a letdown. I saw the attempt by Don Burnside (Dylan McDermott) to shift blame to his invalid brother Rudy (Mark A. Nash) as a too convenient alibi and didn't hold it as credible for a minute. And for the detailed and careful madman that he was, the idea that Don misplaced a crumpled up bondage photo of a cheerleader in the cab of his trunk was way too much of a stretch. And if you think about it, the idea that emanated from that circumstance that Tyler (Charlie Plummer) was a 'perv' was never really reconciled with the facts by the end of the picture. Even if Tyler's Dad went missing, the 'perv' accusation would have still been out there with his high school associates. And what's the story with Don Burnside's final intended murder victim that was saved by Tyler and Kassi (Madisen Beaty)? She didn't die, but simply disappeared from the story as if she couldn't add a thing to authorities about the events that took place in her own home. All of this was just a little too sloppy for this viewer, although the clove hitch clues at 58:40 and 1:27:12 in the picture at least lent an air of acceptance to the movie's title.

I quite liked this film...the two young leads seem like good actors.good story.only real criticism is the ending.....could have been better

This was a bit of a slow burn although they get to the point rather quickly in the story.

Everyone is complaining about the ending and frankly so am I - it was not satisfying.

People says that the girl world have dialed 911 even when the sun said, no. Actually, I don't understand why she didn't dial 911 from the getgo, when the son went into the house, But if she and the son had developed a close relationship, I can see that she would have not when he stopped her. So that is actually believable.

What's not believable is that the police would accept that he committed suicide. Although it does sound like they were suspecting murder. But the mom denied that.

But I don't like is the fact that we never found out what happened to the grocery lady. When they took the plastic bag off her head, I really couldn't tell whether she was dead or alive. There was another shot of her flat on her face and she wasn't moving and it looked quite like she was dead. It took quite some time before the plastic bag was pulled off her head and so it's very possible she died.

Anyway like everyone else I'm very disappointed that the family of the 13 dead women will never get closure. And the community will always think he was some sort of hero. However I can understand him protecting his mom and his sister and his very close knit community where they would absolutely be ostracized and it would have a profound effect.

But what I'm also upset me was the son's gullibility, although I did understand it. And when the father was burning all that treasure trove of evidence; that was very disappointing. And not for nothing, but dad took the grocery lady's driver's license and he put it on his person. The kids wouldn't have known that and I'm surprised that the coroner's office didn't find.

A botched ending that could have been done a little bit better even if they stuck with the entire premise of the ending.

Maybe they were simply going for the banality of evil.