Quite a different thriller, we were captivated.

Rating: Null/10 (20 November 2008)

Tanya loaned us several of her favorite DVDs and this is one of them. The basic premise is that a group of seemingly random, unrelated people end up stranded at a seedy motel because bad weather and flooding make the roads in and out impassable.
But very soon people begin to die. The bodies are discovered in very gruesome situations. So the several remaining adults try to figure out who is responsible, while they also seek to protect themselves.
The movie has an A list of actors. John Cusack is Ed, a former cop who now is a driver for a famous actress. She is Rebecca De Mornay as Caroline Suzanne.
Ray Liotta shows up as Rhosed, a cop transporting a prisoner, who is Jake Busey as Robert Maine. But we eventually learn this situation is not what it is made out to be.
Amanda Peet is Paris, John Hawkes is Larry, Alfred Molina is Dr. Malick, Clea DuVall is a young married Ginny.
At the very beginning of the movie we see Pruitt Taylor Vince as Malcolm Rivers, who appears to be a convicted mental patient. We have to wait until the end to find out how he is connected to the rest of the characters.
While this isn't my favorite genre of movie, it is very suspenseful and kept our attention all the way to the end.
SPOILERS: One family stranded at the seedy motel is a father, his injured wife, and their young son. In the end it turns out that all the characters have the same birthday, and the same birth place, they are in fact different personalities of the mental killer we first see, and the young boy is the manifestation that is killing the others, but they are not a series of real people, instead the different personalities.