Synopsis
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
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Cast
- John CusackEd
- Ray LiottaRhodes
- Amanda PeetParis
- John HawkesLarry
- Alfred MolinaDr. Malick
- Clea DuVallGinny
- John C. McGinleyGeorge York
- William Lee ScottLou
- Jake BuseyRobert Maine
- Pruitt Taylor VinceMalcolm Rivers
Recommendations
- 80
Chicago Reader
Managed to pull the rug out from under me about three-quarters of the way through, and I still hadn't found my feet when the credits rolled. - 80
L.A. Weekly
Cooney's achingly clever script has more up its sleeve than just Agatha Christie -- he also evokes "Psycho," "The Sixth Sense," "Poltergeist" and "The Omen" -- and the final third dishes up a twist that isn't just surprising, it's revealing - 80
Los Angeles Times
Fine escapist fare with a saving sense of humor and an underlying premise that, when revealed, proves to be arguably plausible even if a reach. - 75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Cusack is especially good in a role that's got more (and less) going on under the surface, while Peet offers up another coltish, trash-mouthed vamp. - 75
Chicago Tribune
A slick, bloody thriller, but it's also, to its credit, a genuine whodunit. - 75
New York Daily News
A fascinating movie that, if you are able to make the leap it asks of you at about the three-quarter mark, will give you something to think and talk about for days. One thing is certain: It isn't predictable. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
The hardest work falls to Cusack, a subtle actor with a valuable gift for conveying the sadness and loneliness beneath the skin of even the most jaded and self-contained men-about-town. - 67
Portland Oregonian
It's gory, it's bleak, it's shamelessly tricky -- and it's also a good deal more fun than it had any right to be.
