Synopsis

Tormented by his co-workers and trapped in a life of tedium, Roman's one pleasure is his obsession with the elusive beauty next door (Kristen Bell, Pulse, Fifty Pills). When a chance encounter goes horribly wrong, a moment of frenzied desperation triggers a chilling turn of events. As he teeters between deranged fantasy and cold reality, Roman's struggle to hide his grisly secret is further complicated by an eccentric neighbor (Nectar Rose, Serenity), who forces herself into his dark and tortured world. Lucky McKee stars in this menacing follow-up to his 2002 cult hit, May.

Official Review

In the world of horror, the flavor of the month is always melting rapidly down the sleeves of genre fans. It seems we can’t turn the corner without publications proclaiming the next savior of sanguine cinema. Most fall by the wayside as the massive studio machine consumes their former low budget indie sensibilities—and the graveyard is littered with the corpses of fallen anti-heroes. It appeared for all intents and purposes that Lucky McKee was set to follow that same downward spiral of failed filmmakers. After blazing out of the gate with his 2002 Dario Argento-esque shocker MAY, McKee’s follow-up film THE WOODS lingered in some sort of post-production hell having only just reaching DVD in the fall of 2006. In the interim, an episode of Showtime’s Masters of Horror may have given fans a bit of hope, but it paled in comparison to the visually arresting storytelling on display in his film debut. …Read More