One room that Henry explicitly says that she cannot enter. Art, jewels, money, all the conveniences you could possibly imagine, all of it belongs to her, all of it… but one room. It open on a new bride, Elizabeth (Abbey Lee – The Dark Tower, Gods of Egypt) and her husband Henry (Ciarin Hinds – John Carter, Rome) driving along twisting roads to his impressive house which is staffed by Claire (Carla Gugino – Watchmen, San Andreas) and Oliver (Matthew Beard – The Imitation Game, Skylight).
Though is it really a plot twist if it’s revealed in the first 15 minutes of the film? That is not to say that the plot is particularly complicated, it really is not and frankly as is becoming all too common these days, the trailer hints just a little too much at the plot twist. This film was a genuine surprise, and by the halfway point any attempts at trying to puzzle out the ultimate end of the plot are largely pointless, it’s better to simply strap in and enjoy the ride to the end. This atmosphere of something being subtly wrong is punctuated sharply and brutally at around the twenty minute mark, and from that point on the film plays with the audience’ assumptions about how things are going to go. There is something a little off-kilter about it, the dialogue strangely florid and almost rehearsed, as if we were watching the characters acting out other characters. Three minutes in to Sebastian Gutierrez’s ( Snakes on a Plane, Hotel Noir) Elizabeth Harvest and it is already apparent something is not entirely right.
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