This rough and raw thriller is reminiscent of the sort of pleasingly tawdry fare they used to show at drive-in cinemas and grindhouses back in the day, in a good way. It starts out promising to be one thing and turns into a whole other thing, packing a few deft sub-twists along the way. In rural Mississippi, war vet John (Josh Stewart) and his sultry wife Rosie (Alex Essoe) work for John’s drug kingpin uncle Neil (Skipp Sudduth) processing couriers delivering cash and product. They plan to take their cut and get the hell out of Dodge, but their sketchy good ol’ boy neighbour Troy (Bill Engvall) is getting a bit nosy, although admittedly John and Rosie have been using their telescope to spy on him, too. Director Marcus Dunstan, who wrote a handful of recent instalments in the Saw franchise, knows how to dribble out the suspense and generate surprise from more than just loud noises on the soundtrack. The deliberately cruddy-looking cinematography only enhances the atmosphere.
