A good film which emphatically does not seem at all like it’s going to be a good film. What starts out seeming like a run-of-the-mill b-movie cheap shit thriller about disappearing kids and an urban legend about “the tall man” who abducts children in a Pacific Northwest town turns out to be something quite a bit better than that. I wouldn’t give it an A, but it’s a solid B+, an actual story with a genuine plot, and definitely winds up original rather than the derivative, cliched rehash it really, really seems initially like it’s going to turn out to be. I’m probably a little more enamored with how it fooled me into lowering my expectations than I ought to be, but, I am. It doesn’t happen that often.
