Starts off with an appearance of a more constructive story, but soon in the first 30 mintues or so we see that there's the typical horror scenario:
**protagonist** which for the entirety of the movie stays in a **place** we slowly get to know throughout the movie, and a **villain**, which in this case makes the movie a slasher, shows his presence after half of the movie's duration passed.


It's very easy to go with this type of flow in horror but it's also easier to make mistakes by making it more bland and boring in the second half of the movie, after we get to know all the character and ambientation aspects during its introduction.
I think the story is concise but refined to such a point where almost 2 hours of its simplicity doesn't feel heavy, that's why I reccommend the movie; but that doesn't mean it's spectacular, hence my rating.


There's also some smaller things which I consider as mistakes, but not that severe to such a point where the rating goes down because of them:
-One mistake being, that the villain can go in and out of the gas station [spoiler]to put the people he captured in a single room[/spoiler], but he can do so without the door chime making noise, that would mean that he can do as he pleases because unless our protagonist sees him phisically entering the store, she can't know he entered it because of his _"superpower"_ to silence door chimes. I could judge this not only as a mistake but also as a plot hole which serves to fulfill the story's purpose and make the villain _'scarier'_, but the fact that [spoiler]Mary sees hallucinations[/spoiler], it could play a part in this.
And by the way this also happens in other slasher movies where for the sake of making a killer actually kill a large amount of people in a short amount of time (something that would be impossible in real life), they give them superpowers where they can teleport or be invisible without making it obvious to the one who's watching the movie.

-Another very small mistake which happened during the movie's shooting is around an hour and a half, when our protagonist Mary goes back into the gas station and in one shot she takes the keys with her after closing the door, while in another the keys are left in the lock. Again this is a very small mistake and it's not noticeable at all.

After watching this, I really don't understand the dislike for the film. I found it to be a fairly decent horror/psychological thriller with a little bit of added gore thrown in. The setting was superb, and the suspense throughout was great without being unnerving. While it's true that the film expected you to "stretch your imagination" some, isn't that the case with 99% of movies nowadays...especially those in the oft-maligned horror genre? I didn't find it difficult to follow, even at the expense of "shutting off my brain" for an hour and a half. The acting was mediocre at best, but seriously...who goes into a movie like this expecting Oscar-winning performances? My biggest complaint was the skinny jeans the girl wore throughout the movie. (I hate those things.) Otherwise, I thought this was a great "bargain-bin" find while digging through some of the lesser-known titles on one of my favorite streaming sites.

**DISCLAIMER:** My idea of gore may differ somewhat from yours; I don't consider excessive blood-letting to be "gore", for instance. I've watched too many zombie and/or torture-porn movies with intestines being ripped out of stomachs, eyeballs gouged from sockets, brains being ripped out of torn-open skulls, etc for a tiny bit of blood on the floor to be considered "gory". If you're not used to a lot of violence and its aftermath, this may not be for you. For the hardcore "gorror" fan, this is a walk in the park; I wouldn't consider any of this "excessive".