Good suspense n good cinematography.

Rating: 10/10 (18 December 2016)

In rural Pennsylvania, Keller Dover (Hugh Jackman), his wife Grace (Maria Bello), their teenage son Ralph and young daughter Anna attend a Thanksgiving dinner at the home of their friends, Franklin (Terrence Howard) and Nancy (Viola Davis) Birch, their teenage daughter Eliza and young daughter Joy. The four children go for a walk in the neighborhood and approach an RV that is parked outside a house nearby. There is music playing, which suggests there is somebody inside. After dinner, Anna and Joy go missing.
Detective Loki (Jake Gyllenhaal) is informed and starts a search. He arrests the driver of the RV, which is now parked up at a gas station. The young man, Alex Jones (Paul Dano), has the IQ of a 10 year old, and appears confused when being questioned at the police station. His vehicle is searched by forensics but nothing is found relating to the girls. Pursuing other leads, Loki discovers a corpse in the basement of Father Patrick Dunn's house. The priest (Len Cariou) admits that he killed the man because he confessed he was "waging a war against God" and boasted of killing 16 children.
As the search continues, Dover is informed that Jones has been released and attacks him outside of the police station. Jones whispers to him, "They didn't cry until I left them." Since Loki won't re-arrest Jones, Dover abducts him, locks him up in his late father's abandoned home and tortures him—with the help of a reluctant Franklin—to force him to talk. First he beats him, but Jones says nothing. Dover ties him up in the shower and uses plywood to enclose him in the dark. He adjusts the water so the shower is either scorching hot or freezing to further torture him.