georgeritmeester I never saw the original, but my summary is based on other reviews found here. Reasonably entertaining, but too unrealistic because:1) The mother is of normal or superior intelligence except when it's time to add two and two. Her neighbor tells her the guy looks like someone on America's Most Wanted, and she doesn't even check it out when it only takes a few clicks of the mouse.1a) Even when the neighbor dies shortly after advising her of the above, the mother still suspects nothing. 1b) Even when she learns the guy quit the job with his sister as soon as she wanted his social security number and other info, she's still not suspicious.1c) In real life, the mother would kick the guy out of the house and tell him to get lost after finding out what he did to her younger son. Instead, she treats it like a minor incident hardly worth mentioning.2) Same problem with girlfriend. Smart enough to go to college but, aside from all the other suspicions the son relayed to her, when he explains how the guy could not have known the neighbor fell down the stairs and broke her neck, because all the mailman told him was that the neighbor had an accident, she just blows it off instead of considering that suspicious. 3) How did the guy get into the mother's email? He may be living with her but it seems unlikely she would have volunteered the password to her email.4) Nobody in real life could still function normally after being stabbed in the neck with a large piece of glass.5) Even though his suspicions continued to increase as time went by, the son never once goes to the police, when all he would have had to do is ask them to check out if the guy was the one on America's Most Wanted. 6) The concluding scene is a plot device that was apparently popularized by Silence of the Lambs. But here it makes no sense. The guy would be dead or in jail awaiting trial, not free to move to another town and assume yet another anonymous identity.7) I'm not sure anything here is actually a spoiler alert. 8) Modernized thrillers usually make the story more believable. If that was the intent here, it failed miserably. Perhaps the most egregious scene is the one where the sister is about to head for the airport when she discovers the wind blew a table umbrella into her pool (or was tossed there by the killer). Instead of just leaving it in the pool until she returns from her trip, she wastes precious time trying to retrieve the umbrella from the pool while a lightning storm is in progress - more important than making sure she doesn't miss her flight or get electrocuted, I guess. But this idiocy had to be introduced to have a plausible scenario for the guy to be able to murder her quickly without any witnesses. A close second is the fact the killer doesn't turn off the ringer on the murdered ex-husband's cellphone, which he has to keep using to send and receive text messages making it appear the son's father is still alive and still communicating. And a close third is the fact that the mother allows the new guy to keep the basement door locked when it's her house - not his.9) That being said, reasonably entertaining when you're in the mood to just flake out and take a vacation from your mind. But if you're chomping at the bit to watch a great movie, better save this one for another time.

vchimpanzee The opening of this movie has a disturbing contrast. Nice Christmas decorations and a beautiful version of "Silent Night" sung by what may be a boys' choir, and dead bodies lying beside the decorations. The man who apparently committed the murders is on his way to terrorize another family.Susan and "David" meet at the grocery store and are immediately attracted to each other. Soon, Michael comes home from military school where he was sent because he caused trouble, along with his intelligent and gorgeous girlfriend Kelly. He is not happy with the new addition to the family. Neither is his father Jay.Over time, David tries to develop a relationship with Michael, but it is hard. Meanwhile, Susan's sister Jackie gives David a job without bothering to do a background check. David has no past, however, and he keeps making excuses. People start finding out his stories are lies. And whenever anyone points out his suspicious behavior, or his resemblance to a killer who has not been found ... well, you just don't want to be around David when he's alone and you have provoked him.A nosy neighbor dies suspiciously, and Jay also mysteriously disappears. Michael and Kelly investigate, and Kelly takes advantage of every opportunity to show how good she looks in a bikini or underwear. Still, she does have brains too.The movie starts out pleasant enough, almost family-friendly. But it soon gets quite exciting. The final action scene is quite entertaining, and based on something I read in user reviews, could have been even more so without the deletion of a particularly well-done stunt.As a thriller this could have been better. Everything seems almost normal, which is fine. I like normal. But if this was actually a feature film, it doesn't seem like one. It seems like a Lifetime woman-in-jep movie. I like those, so I was reasonably happy.Dylan Walsh gives a good enough performance, but by the end he is going beyond the ordinary.Sela Ward is a respected actress and she does just fine here, but there isn't anything particularly distinctive. She does look good, despite her ex's comments about why he was attracted to other women.Amber Heard gives a good performance, but I think that's mainly because she doesn't mind showing off her body and shows confidence when she does.Penn Badgley does a capable job too.It was entertaining enough. Just don't expect too much.

charlee-cooper I stayed up late on a work night to watch this and I'm disappointed. That's 90 minutes of my life I won't get back. The whole movie seemed to lack suspense. It was advertised as a slasher movie, but it contained no gore and the most pathetic excuse for violence. It was almost laughable. I feel like they blew the whole budget on Amber Heard's bikinis and underwear, so they couldn't afford any really good bloody or gruesome SFX. There was no story arc whatsoever, it just didn't seem like it was snowballing into this incredible edge-of-your-seat suspense, he ended up killing everyone in such obvious and stupid ways, there were some scenes that could have been made to be incredible, but they were cut short and you didn't really know what happened. Even the ending was anti- climatic. Personally I don't know how a serial killer who interacts with the victims families and close personal friends can evade capture. This is 2009 America, surely the man was caught on CCTV somewhere? I just found the whole story unbelievably boring and far fetched. A man deleted a photo you took of him off your phone and you deduce that he's a serial killer? Right until the final showdown, I was wondering when the suspense and drama would kick in.

Adam Peters (10%) An immensely pointless waste of time and effort, that amounts to almost nothing, and it even takes way too long in getting there. This may have worked as a hour long TV show or maybe short film, but that would have depended upon a large overall improvement, as well as a change to both the script and the production, as there just isn't anything to this at all. If you really want to tone down the violence to your horror movie, as this does, which can actually be fine, then you need to offer something else in terms of tension, or mood, but this doesn't even have any of that, and it's not as if it is trying and failing because there's about half the movie's run time devoted to non-horror based elements. We see tons of the elder son and his girlfriend frolic in the pool, quite a bit of them all having dinner, and them attending some family parties, but only about 15-20 minutes of anything that even resembles horror. And even though this is solidly shot, and far from utterly unwatchable, there's still no getting away from how truly worthless this is.