Like being on a carnival ride!

Rating: 8/10 (23 January 2005)

This films takes one of the more common of film plots, that of strangers stranded together while they are murdered one by one, and delivers a entirely new twist to the proceedings. Everyone has some little secret that is slowly brought out to the viewer, and everyone also has a reason to kill one or more of the others. Each time a secret was revealed I'd think "Well, that's it - he's the killer!" (or "She's the killer!") until I'd labeled just about everyone that way. I even considered the "least likely suspect" as the killer just so I wouldn't be hoodwinked by the plot, and wouldn't you know it - each "Least likely suspect" starts dying off as well. It rains throughout this movie so much that the rain itself becomes a character to consider as the suspect. Then there's all that talk about the motel they are staying at as being built on top of an Indian burial ground. There's so many twists and turns that by the time the movie is over you almost feel like you've been on a carnival ride for two hours. Well done!