After his girlfriend gets grotesquely murdered in the same manner as past local unsolved crimes, Rick Adams (an excellent and credible performance by A.J. Hyde) and his two best friends band together to figure out the mystery behind the killings. Director Chris LaMartina, who also co-wrote the absorbing script with Jimmy George, relates the compelling story at a steady pace, creates and sustains a genuinely tense and creepy atmosphere, delivers a vivid depiction of the sleepy small town setting, firmly grounds the plot and characters in a thoroughly plausible workaday reality, and offers a nicely believable take on the familiar premise of popular longstanding urban legends. Moreover, LaMartina sprinkles neat bits of grisly gore throughout and does a bang-up job of peeling away the deceptively bland and tranquil veneer of suburbia in order to expose all the dark and disturbing stuff going on just underneath the surface. The sturdy acting by the able cast constitutes as another major asset: Hyde makes for a strong and engaging lead, with sterling support from Dan Vidor as high-strung artist Jason, D. Patrick Bauer as flip smartaleck Evan, Sean Quinn as intimidating thug Grant, Derrick Lampkins as the sensible Sheriff Barlow, Mary Jane Oelke as overbearing crippled religious fanatic Mrs. Harris, and Mike Baldwin as mean bully Nolan. LaMartina's competent cinematography and Le'Rue Delashay's spare spooky score both further enhance the overall sound quality of this quietly unnerving sleeper.