Director: Seth Fuller, Scott Hussion
Year: 2018
Country: USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Slasher
Plot:
Arriving at a new house for the summer, a family and the daughter’s friend decide to settle into the rental property they have access to, but the longer they stay the more they fail to notice the actions of their landlord spying on them through hidden cameras until they’re forced to defend themselves from him.
Review:
This was a general disappointment much like the original. Just like that one, the majority of this works as an excuse to explore the concept of spy cameras and illegally viewing others. The voyeuristic tendencies explored there are continued here as we spend most of the film seeing him watch the couples through the secret security cameras he has throughout the house. Watching them go through these relationship woes, getting undressed, or taking care of their own business unknowingly in full view of the cameras livestreaming across the internet is a fine angle to build up the tension to the finale. Once again being a brutal, graphic series of encounters that manage to generate some fun aspects here, it’s all that manages to make this one likable.
Beyond that aspect, there are some issues that really lower this one. Once again, there’s very little to this one that explains why the guy is able to get away with everything. The creepy demeanor and greasy appearance should be more than enough to alert anyone to what kind of person he is, and the whole secretive behavior of how the operation works should be more than enough to alarm the authorities about how the kid is treated. Abducting people and disappearing from the face of the Earth is never explained how that happens, and that continues with the obsession with the cameras as this behavior is once again in this where no one is the wiser to how the whole thing works even with the access to the illegal livestream setup.
As well, there’s also the massively dull and irritating storyline that never once makes any sense or provides a reason to care what’s going on. The inability of the abducted couple to put a plan into motion when they had the upper hand, the lack of awareness of his intrusions into the trip that signals something is off and the whole thing feels as though none of this makes any sense. The fact that, again, we’re not given a reason to care about the family trying to get the friend to hook up with the brother, the parents trying to have their own time together, and the cutaways watching everything drag the interest down considerably. The film picks up at the end with the brutal confrontations once it all gets brought out but that's too little too late to save this one.
Overview: *.5/5
A near-retread of the original with the same flaws and positives, that it features much of the same happening in a new location to new people without doing anything new or fixing the issues is something to get over. Those who liked the original or are curious about it should give it a shot while most others that are turned off by these features or didn’t like the original should heed caution here.
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