While the tagline of the poster reads, “There’s something wrong with Esther,” the real tagline should read “Everything’s wrong with the movie.”
Slasher movies aren’t my particular favorites but I am a fan of psychological thrillers. Not knowing what to expect from this movie, it was chosen because Peter Sarsgaard was a key player. I am greatly relieved to say that there wasn’t a lot of blood and guts in the movie.
While the acting in the movie was above par, the film just doesn’t seem plausible enough to be enjoyable. For a psychological thriller to work, you must accept the premise that the reality presented on screen could actually happen. The difficulty with this film is that you know the protagonist from the beginning—you just don’t know how or why.
Once the truth is revealed, the biggest question you ask yourself is “Why have I stayed here so long?” While the ending is climatic, the likelihood of it happening, as played on the screen, is so simply unbelievable that there is no way that one can suspend their disbelief in order to accommodate the plot.
I enjoyed watching the men of the audience more than the movie—they would squirm in their seats and/or shift their weight during the scary parts of the movie. Once the movie was over, they manned-up and boasted “that bitch didn’t scare me” or “I knew it all the time.”
I rate this movie four watches.
Viewed on July 31, 2009 at AMC Empire 25 (NYC).
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