While staying at a remote countryside lodge, a man and his girlfriend's planned weekend of carefree sex is halted when they learn the mysterious handyman has more on his mind than fixing up the place and must escape from his murderous clutches.
Predictable, barely worthwhile effort that has pretty much everything we've seen in these types of films before and nothing at all new or original to this. It plays out pretty much as we expect it to, the ignoring of the obvious signs to continue on partying, the failure to recognize when they're in danger, and most of all it takes about an hour before he snaps and turns psycho, so there's nothing at all that's going on for the majority of the movie before the ending, which instead of dealing out torture, revolves around chasing, beating and running away, leaving little blood and gore involved as well. Still, this could've been quite fine, with a fine setting and some sleaze that had the finale chasing around the compound been a bit more enjoyable. A major letdown in most regards.
Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language and Nudity.
The Lodge
2008
Action / Horror / Thriller
The Lodge
2008
Action / Horror / Thriller
Plot summary
A young couple's weekend getaway at a secluded mountain ranch becomes an unfathomable nightmare when they discover the truth about the caretaker.
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Movie Reviews
Disposable thriller without too much worthwhile
pleasantly surprised me
A couple, Julia and Micheal, have their getaway weekend at a mountain luxury cabin upset when Henry, the creepy caretaker, takes an unnatural interest in them in this tight well-acted little direct to DVD thriller. I had little to no idea or expectations for this movie when I first started watching it. But as the story unfolded I found myself pleasantly surprised. Not at the story, because that's fairly generic, more at the execution of it all, which I found to be fairly slick. The film starts off slow but does a great job of building up tension and that kept me interested until the end (which admittedly falters a tad). I wouldn't have a problem recommending this to anyone.
Eye Candy: Liz Jones is topless in the pre-credits sequence
My Grade: B-
Wow
I made an account to review this one lol, it's that bad. Well, it had a few moments in the first half that will make sure you watch the rest of it swirl down the toilet. So the boyfriend is face down in the barn while the girlfriend bludgeons the bad guy, okay got it. One down, one creepy girl to go. So they leave the barn full of things that could be used as weapons... empty handed... to go back to the lodge just to be overpowered by some little brat who is half the size of the guy the girfriend just beat to death. Creepy girl is walking after the running girlfriend keeping pace while dragging a 100lb iron fireplace rack, catches up and swings that thing like it's made of balsa wood as the adult lady kickboxer cowers in fear. WOW.