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Did anyone actually understand the plot of this movie? Other than too complex of a plot (and potentially contradictory), I thought this was a very well done independent horror film.

Did the villain actually plan the game just for them despite his claim to not have? Otherwise it doesn't make sense that he'd know all of their personal businesses.

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HERE THERE BE SPOILERS

He made up the game so the Josh would basically go crazy trying to tie these random people together. Because he was locked in the house, getting fed names he didn't know if he had recognized yet, he totally fixated on these people and realized he did know them, although very distantly (I'm assuming that was why the killer chose Josh as his victim). So Josh locks himself in his house (at least that's what it looked like from anyone on the outside), leaves messages on his answering machine saying he and Rebecca will be out of town for the entire month, and has nothing at all to do but worry about food, water, the safety of his wife and the answers to these strange puzzle pieces. So he fills paper, walls, mirrors, etc with these names and their relationships. The killer knew that after this extreme psychological torture, the guilt over his own sins and the final death of his wife would be too much and he would finally eat one of those bullets the guy kept leaving around. Once he killed himself, the killer could walk away and open the house up to the next person who decided to knock on the door (the killer was "lucky", though, since the cops were already on their way and Josh and his wife were dead right in the open garage). The cops would investigate and think Josh was the one who had gone crazy, singling out random acquaintences and killing them himself, even going so far as to bring some of the bodies home (the guy in the attic and the guy in the tub). Since Josh would be blamed for the murders while not being alive to defend himself or explain what had really happened, the killer could basically walk away scot-free and never have to worry about being traced back to the people he had killed (most before Josh had even been forced to board up the windows).

All in all, I thought this was a pretty decent movie. If you watch the credits, you'll see that Anthony Falcon pretty much made this entire movie himself, with only the help of the other actors to play the rest of the characters and some songs he found on My Space. He probably shot it on one camera and edited it on his home PC. I had no problem following the plot, but I think knowing this movie was a one-man band right from the start helped my thought process along. Awesome effort, I say.

I've got two good posts in me and I just wrote my third...

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I actually appreciate your breakdown trajeal and it does help explain the movie much better for me. Aside from that the horrendous acting, unbelievable actions of the characters and the convoluted instructions of the killer wasn't executed well enough to make this movie enjoyable.

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