Review: " Excellent.......From Psychological Thriller...........Into Another Realm".........
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 17, 2013
This author wrote an excellent, realistic psychological thriller, that by the middle of the story it took a strange turn in a completely different direction...It started off with a slow build of suspense, quick intensity to out right horrific terror...It's very violent, bloody, gorey and sqeamish....Great characterization, that you actually felt this familys, confusion, panic, helplessness and primal intincts kick in...The twisted ending, turned out to be very shocking, emotional, yet very thought provoking...Leaves you with the question what's real and what's not........The author does say in the afterword that he was inspired by such movies as, "Funny Games" and "Last House On The Left", but I am not embarrassed to say I have seen all versions.....This is completely different....It does have sociopolitical tones, real everyday tradedies, identity theft and pure invasion of complete privacy which is going on today......Robert Mitchell's family and marriage is shattered by one horrific crime already....So, to recover they leave the city and purchase a safe home in the country side...While on a short weekend vacation they return home to find it taken over by an evil family of "Nomads"...Their home is destroyed, police again are no help as with the last crime and they are displaced to a hotel....Robert's wife Sarah has become bitter, hard and cold....While Robert has turned into a weaken man because he couldn't defend her...The children are caught in the middle....So, the question is will they pick fight or flight..Their personas are slowly being absorbed and fading into existence by these "Nomads", little by little..But whatever the Mitchell family decides to choose will it finally give them peace and  turn into a happily ever after ending......I highly recommend this horror story for the times we live in...It has a lot of hidden meaning and eventually after a few hours it will click and you will get that ending....