In struggling to find a suitable ending to her novel, she overcomes her writer's block when finding a potential ending in her struggle against a home invader. Contrived, to say the least. The unique angle of this film was her deafness, which you might imagine would up the suspense, but it's not used in any creative way and is instead forgotten about. What are we left with? A random killer, randomly killing, with a roll-of-the-dive defeat at the end. Final shot? Well, despite the hole in her leg and fingers broken in every direction, she lets out a little smile. Wtf.

Yeah. We have a competent person in the lead role. And she's... Deaf. This movie really, truly is a creative home invasion flick and I don't see that a lot of the time. Our killer, using her lack of hearing to it's fullest advantage, to mentally torture a lonely woman in an isolated home. But, she's much more clever than you'd think, so it does turn into a battle of wits rather than jumpscare after jumpscare. But, don't be mistaken, it's still tense. If you've got time to kill, and want quality horror, this is a damn good pick.

I hope you haven't watched this movie yet. I was like you once "hey this looks pretty good, ive been looking for another good thriller to watch on Netflix, and woah the IMDb ratings not bad either, why not?"... I'll tell you why not. I saw this movie a week ago, and for a week this movie has haunted my dreams. How are there so many good reviews for this film? I feel like I'm loosing my grip on reality. It just makes no sense. Pretty early on in the movie I found myself rooting for the antagonist (who had absolutely no back story nor motivation whatsoever) simply because if you are not even going to arm yourself or get some semblance of a plan together then apparently you didn't care to be alive that much in the first place. Early on she had the knife hammer combo going on and it worked for her, then she ditches weaponry all together. some how she manages to get the crossbow from this friggin murderous boy scout and wastes her time trying to load it for like 20 minutes where she just stops caring about keeping an eye on the guy. All this could have been overlooked because I was pretty baked, but why in God's name would you not finish the dude off when he was being held in the dying chokehold of maybe the most gullible man in the world? He used his last dying breaths to try and strangle this man, has him completely immobilized and she just sits inside watching like a helpless dumb dumb. I mean stab that dude, help out just a little. I'm not mad I'm just disappointed get it together guys.

My husband and I just finished watching this movie. While he would like that hour and a half of his life back, I thought it was a good thriller. The scene of him texting her with photos of her sitting in her own house was genius. I was wondering if anyone else thought that the plot of the movie might actually be Maddie envisioning this story as she sat at her computer with writer's block? That's how I concluded it; with it not actually occurring but was dreamt up by the writer, herself. Anyone else?