Not what it appears to be

Rating: 7/10 (22 August 2009)

I watched this film for the second time recently and enjoyed it again.
The film begins as what appears to be a run of the mill slasher thriller as a group of strangers take refuge in a motel on a stormy night. One by one they are killed off in increasingly gory ways by an unknown killer who or may not be one of them. The director gradually reveals what what is really happening and the film turns into something I didn't expect.
The excellent cast including John Cusack, Amanda Peet John C. McGinley,and Ray Liotta is used well by the director to show the confusion that their characters and the viewer share.