I bought this movie because its IFC Midnight and has Hey Paulson in it. It started off weak, showing the girls wounded leg 30 times before moving into the dark heart of the story. Its director Jen McGowan's sophomore film but her first in the genre. However, it honestly feels like a first film. After about 30 mins the movie picks up and it slowly becomes more and more engrossing. If you ask me what makes this movie is the relationships and how the movie feel so in tune with real-life. Jay Paulson plays Lowell a backwoods meth cooker who takes the main character Sawyer captive for unknown reasons and tries to protect her. An unlikely friendship is formed damn Sawyer helps Lowell find himself in a world where he's felt so lost since he was 14. The kills in this movie are very effective because the relationships are examined on such a deep level. You feel for the person getting killed whether they're good or bad. Jay Paulson gives a very good performance in a role that makes him seem tender yet creepy. Amateurish but good I give it a 6.4 strictly for relationships
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