Well, everyone should definitely see it, as it's an example of everything that can be wrong in a script.

Quoted from Dreamscale Rick...The Strangers?  You're comparing this to The Strangers? The Strangers is horror, marketed as horror, shot as horror, set up as horror.  The Strangers has zero twists and surprises.  It's appeal is in its terror and creep factor. Apples and oranges in every way, IMO. Well, if you're correct in your comment about "the people who greenlight these projects aren't necessarily interested in how good the story is...", at least that confirms what I was pretty sure I already knew - that these people are complete fucking idiots and every time a crappy movie loses a shitload of money, I for one will do a little jog and say, "Ain't that a surprise?".

The reason I bring the Strangers up is that Trespass is a remake of Kidnapped...a film which was essentially just torture porn when all is said and done.

Kidnapped starts off gritty and realistic (which tends to be the csse with European films in general) and then becomes very nihilistic and brutal.

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi424385817/

I don't know how well Kidnapped did, but it seems to have caught the eye of the powers that be at some point...and I'm just guessing that it's because it was a bit similar to the Strangers which was a very popular film.

I suspect you'd prefer kidnapped. It's a thinly plotted film, but that means there are fewer gaps in logic. It's not greta by any means, but it's pretty intense and hard hitting.

The writers of Trespass appear to have tried, rightly or wrongly, to make the story wider and more intricate and it's much less of a horror (Kidnapped won several Horror awards).

Quoted from Scar Tissue Films It's not greta by any means, but it's pretty intense and hard hitting.

It's true, Greta WAS pretty intense.



Sorry.

HaHa...that's hilarious!  Well done, Chris.  Funny...