Attempting to investigate her sister's disappearance, a woman stays at a rundown bed-and-breakfast to begin her search, and the longer she stays at the motel looking for her she eventually stumbles across a savage killer and his controller preying on guests that stay there and tries to get away.
There wasn't a whole lot to this one that really works. What really works here is the setup of the facility operating as it does under the radar to let the killer prey on guests. The concept of the two operating out of the bed-and-breakfast while using the cameras set up around the buildings signals something is going on at the operation and provides this one with the necessary air of suspense leading into the finale. This is where the lone bit of action arrives with the confrontations providing the type of hard-hitting confrontations this needs even if they're still not that impressive as the majority of the action works only due to what's come before. This is really all that works for this one. Beyond that, though, there are a lot of issues at play. The majority of those are tied up in the fact that there's so little story here that it resorts to obvious and obnoxious padding to get this to a respectable length. So much of this one is built around her looking through the contents of the video camera she finds in her room that clues her in that something is going on with not just her sister but the other tenants at the location. Way too many of these segments aren't that interesting with the bizarre behavior being captured on the recordings just makes for an exhausting and lifeless pace which is based solely on seeing them on the recordings not doing anything of importance during the sequence. That takes a lot of steam out of the film when so much of it comes across as lifeless and unimportant. That wouldn't be so bad if the rest of her investigation was interesting or pertinent to her main reason for being there. While she initially starts off looking into old videos to get a clue about her sisters' whereabouts or talking to others trying to get an idea of what happened, she ends up dropping her investigation to spend time sight-seeing and looking around the city to spend much of any time looking into what happened. This is all compounded by not just doing anything interesting for the majority of the film, not just the obvious padding but other scenes including the pointless yoga session or meeting with her neighbor which tends to hold up the investigation or even the killers' antics until the finale as a result. These issues are the most detrimental and hold this back the most.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Language, Violence, and Brief Nudity.
