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I thought this movie was hilarious. The three main characters are complete idiots and nothing they do or say throughout the whole movie makes any sense, but watching their downfall is beyond satisfying - because they have no redeeming qualities. The daughter, the dad and the mom, as a group, are the most unlikeable people that I have ever seen on screen. They are so stupid, right from the start it´s too hard to believe someone would be this stupid all the time, and so nonchalant about covering up evil deeds and ignoring psychopathy, and therefore I felt like this must have been written like that on purpose, so that we wouldn´t think this was supposed to be serious for even a minute. I know this is a different take from the reviews that consider this to be a run-of the mill average thriller, and I hope someone sees this review and decided to watch it as a comedy instead of a really bad thriller. It´s probably the only way you could get any enjoyment out of it.

It´s a cliché that I seldom use, since I hate clichés, but here goes: This movie´s only positive quality is that it really is so incredibly bad that it becomes not good but enjoyable and funny. When D´Andra Simmons popped up playing the cop I felt like it was the icing on the cake for me (I´m a huge real housewives fan). I wish Lifetime would take all the elements of this movie and actually work on it a little, get better actors and a better script, and make it a nice little thriller with teenagers and psycho cultists. It seems easy in theory so I don´t know how they could possibly have ruined it in every way with this movie, but I´m not even joking, there is not a single thing that works here, except the main actress was okay.

I was bored right from the start. Everything was clunky and almost nothing made sense. Like, why didn´t the boy pretend to be dumb? It would have been cool if he acted stupid but then suddenly showed how bright he was, but no, he couldn´t even lie a little bit? That was a weird choice... A scary villain needs some mystery. I predicted the ending easily. The main characters should have built up a friendly relationship in order for us to care at all. Then the back story came out of nowhere, like a corny melodrama lol I could almost say that literally every line in the script was off. It was disjointed, just going from one big (stupid) twist to the next without connecting them together. Although, in a way I am glad they didn´t do that because then the movie would have been longer and I kept nodding off through out, thinking about the fun I would have going to bed early just as soon as I had finished watching it. I don´t know why but I expected way more.

The actress who played the girlfriend is very pretty but she can´t act, everyone else was blah except Noah who played creepy rather well.