pretty visually, poor intelectually

Rating: 3/10 (28 June 2018)

I remember seeing a screen of this movie years ago and I was strongly intrigued. The idea itself is pretty intriguing, when you do forget the plotholes - at least for myself I find the situation when after a twelve hours of going berserk you become once again a lovely neighbour. Though you'd have to be a really disciplined one to hold the act for 364 days... And also petty.
But after less than an hour of watching, the movie got predictable. You don't have to be a mastermind to figure the daughter will be used as a hostage when both of them are roaming around the house and the Homeless Stranger wants to survive. Man, it was Charlie's fault in the first place! What ten-year-old supposed genius let's in a stranger during the most horrible night in the country?! Morally, I would. But open the house without permission or conciousness of my parents? What if someone was lurking around and got to our house first? I dunno.
Why I gave three stars? Those. Masks. Are. Beautiful. In my honest opinion. They are what got me to want to watch it. The scenes of the Purgators who are playing in the yard and whe they first break into the house, as stand-alone scenes they could be rated higher. I find them mesmerising.
Then it is a domestic horror, they just hunt each other down in the house that is SO DARN BIG. And they are so darn bad at being cautious. Charlie, for life's sake, when you are hiding in the basement, and you are HIDING, put some mind into it and do not fence around with that flashlight.
And thank goodness there are the neighbours. Though once they kill the Massacre group, you see they are the next killers. Haha, were you surprised?
we got look at fancy american households that had protective membrane around them. why cannot you film how it looks like in lower class households who are vulnerable to any psycho eve when they are innocent?
Too bad James died though. If I had to choose, he was the one who got on my nerves the least.