Going back home is never easy especially for radio
psychiatrist Dr. Sonny Blake (Rose McGowan) whose father just died due to an
accident in which he fell down his basement steps supposedly in a drunken stupor. Now Sonny must come to grips with the memory
of her father, a man she partial hates.
This is starting off point for the tense thriller Rosewood Lane (2011) in which Sonny moves into her father’s home
only to realize that nothing is what it seems in the neighborhood especially in
terms of the local Paperboy (Daniel Ross Owens) who suffers from a medical
condition which leaves him without white pupils in his eyes giving him a
haunting dead stare and look. Where she
see a rare medical condition her neighbors see pure evil as Sonny will soon
find out when the Paperboy becomes fixated on her.
Whenever she turns he seems to be to the point that he can
be in multiple places at the same time and soon she starts believing that maybe
he is pure evil and that he had something to do with the death of her father. It’s only a matter of time before the
Paperboy’s advances become deadly violent and she soon believes that her own
life is in danger.
Written and directed by Victor Salva this is a tense
thriller similar to his previous film Nature
of the Beast (1995) and just as thought provoking as both films pit two
strong characters against each other in a battle of wills. I’m not a particular big fan of McGowan but she
does a really fine job in this film and has an equally supportive cast in Owens
not to mention Lin Shaye, Lesley-Anne Down, Ray Wise and Lauren Luna
Velez. This is a very satisfying
thriller with several twists that I wasn’t expecting. A very enjoyable film.
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