Hmmm. Hmmmmmmmm. Hmmmm.

What starts as a dreadfully slow, very British take on a home invasion/captivity flick a la "Funny Games"—something I'm immediately put off by—turns out, very slowly, to be something a little more... but then, exactly what, is never revealed, which is frustrating.

In 1972, a journalist couple who has been poking around a mysterious military operation our on the moors receives a visit from a very oddly-mannered couple, "Mr. and Mrs. Blair", who want to ask them a few questions, and proceed to brutalize and take them captive.

Honestly, pretty bad movie, and the fact that nothing is explained or resolved makes it doubly frustrting.

But at the same time, the acting is, er, strange enough to be a little engaging. The oddball performances of Mr. & Mrs Blair, as they slowly get stranger and stranger, is somehow a little interesting, especially the actress who plays Mrs. Blair, who starts off seeming not quite human, and gets more animalistic from there. Mrs. Blair asks, "Is this a photo of your daughter?" to which the father replies, "Yes, do you like it?" She glares at him for a moment before shouting sternly, "I. DO. NOT. DECIDE!" Good fun.

I don't know. I certainly can't recommend it as a good movie. And the complete lack of an explanation is just annoying. But it was, er, oddly interesting enough that after it ended I went back and re-watched the parts of the beginning I hadn't initially paid a lot of attention to because I was lost by how talky they were. It's not common that I'm interested enough to do that.

So.... hmmmmmm.

No, not a very good movie. But still, hmmmmmmm.