My vote of 7 is based on a 10 for concept and a 4 for execution. This isn't a polished piece of work, but there's a lot of talent at work here and a lot of these people should go on to much better things.
Writer Lane Shadgett keeps within the discipline of a three act structure. Act I finds small town cop Dwayne Hooper getting ready for work on the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of his and wife Janine's son Kyle. This was one of numerous disappearances that plagued the town of Stone Cove, Maine, and were never solved. Dwayne and his family are alienated from themselves and from each other. He's obsessed with work, and still trying to solve Kyle's kidnapping. Janine is meeting her boyfriend at the local No Tell Motel (How can they keep this a secret in a small New England town?). Daughter Daisy is infatuated with a much older would be musician. Dwayne interrogates a prisoner named Ronald Perkins, and suspects the man's involvement in the kidnappings. After an officer is killed when he goes to the house and accidentally opens the cages holding several teenagers, Dwayne finds what happened: Perkins had kidnapped the children and spent his time pumping them full of drugs and turning them into killing machines. Knowing that Kyle had been one of Perkins' unwilling lab rats, Dwayne executes Perkins in cold blood.
Act II finds Dwayne looking for his wife and daughter while Stone Cove comes under attack by the freed teenagers. He gets Daisy and she tells him where Janine is, just in time to rescue her after the motel is attacked. Dwayne spots Kyle but doesn't shoot at him, hoping he can find a spark of humanity in the boy.
Act III takes place at the police station/jail. Daisy and Janine go there as it's probably a safe place, and Dwayne soon joins them. The killer teenagers focus their attack on the police station, where the survivors mount a last stand not unlike ATTACK ON PRECINCT 13, which itself borrowed heavily from RIO BRAVO.
If only the people who made this had been up to the task. As always, smart people are required to do stupid things. Worse yet, we get no feel for what life in Stone Cove is like. Much of this is due to the film's having been made in Romania. At the entrance to the police station there's a big sign welcoming people to Stone Cove, and the sign has errors of grammar that remind us that English wasn't somebody's first language.
It would be great to see this remade with the same cast but a bigger budget and a tighter screenplay.
Writer Lane Shadgett keeps within the discipline of a three act structure. Act I finds small town cop Dwayne Hooper getting ready for work on the tenth anniversary of the disappearance of his and wife Janine's son Kyle. This was one of numerous disappearances that plagued the town of Stone Cove, Maine, and were never solved. Dwayne and his family are alienated from themselves and from each other. He's obsessed with work, and still trying to solve Kyle's kidnapping. Janine is meeting her boyfriend at the local No Tell Motel (How can they keep this a secret in a small New England town?). Daughter Daisy is infatuated with a much older would be musician. Dwayne interrogates a prisoner named Ronald Perkins, and suspects the man's involvement in the kidnappings. After an officer is killed when he goes to the house and accidentally opens the cages holding several teenagers, Dwayne finds what happened: Perkins had kidnapped the children and spent his time pumping them full of drugs and turning them into killing machines. Knowing that Kyle had been one of Perkins' unwilling lab rats, Dwayne executes Perkins in cold blood.
Act II finds Dwayne looking for his wife and daughter while Stone Cove comes under attack by the freed teenagers. He gets Daisy and she tells him where Janine is, just in time to rescue her after the motel is attacked. Dwayne spots Kyle but doesn't shoot at him, hoping he can find a spark of humanity in the boy.
Act III takes place at the police station/jail. Daisy and Janine go there as it's probably a safe place, and Dwayne soon joins them. The killer teenagers focus their attack on the police station, where the survivors mount a last stand not unlike ATTACK ON PRECINCT 13, which itself borrowed heavily from RIO BRAVO.
If only the people who made this had been up to the task. As always, smart people are required to do stupid things. Worse yet, we get no feel for what life in Stone Cove is like. Much of this is due to the film's having been made in Romania. At the entrance to the police station there's a big sign welcoming people to Stone Cove, and the sign has errors of grammar that remind us that English wasn't somebody's first language.
It would be great to see this remade with the same cast but a bigger budget and a tighter screenplay.