The sort of film that's both satisfying from a thriller perspective (albeit in a modest, small-town sort of way) and as a character study (albeit it helps to be interested in the sort of characters who use emotional detachment as a coping mechanism) - it is, in other words, easy to see why this didn't really make a splash on release despite having a great cast (Peter Gallagher with a beard! Young William Fichtner, being EVIL! Shelley Duvall! Joe Don…

It's sort of tricky to know what to say after this one--on the one hand, I'm pretty sure a lot of other people are articulating things better in their reviews, and on the other hand, I'm still recuperating from the experience of this one. That said, I feel like I should write something, so a few points:

+I was worried about seeing it in 3D, but the film's color palate is bright enough that it didn't feel like I lost…