The trailer and artwork for this movie lead are a bit of misdirection to have you believe it's along the lines of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET or even PHANTASM. And it does seem that way for the first half. Jessica Biel portrays a harried nurse in a small town whose boy is abducted. She's frantic. There's a local myth about The Tall Man, a shadowy figure who abducts children--and many children have been taken in the past decade. Was he taken as well? Yes, in a way, but it's not what you're led to believe. Though I could see what they were trying to do the film falls apart in the last half hour. It's all too convoluted and doesn't make sense if you think about it for more than two minutes. It's a tall order in plausibility.
The trailer and artwork for this movie lead are a bit of misdirection to have you believe it's along the lines of A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET or even PHANTASM. And it does seem that way for the first half. Jessica Biel portrays a harried nurse in a small town whose boy is abducted. She's frantic. There's a local myth about The Tall Man, a shadowy figure who abducts children--and many children have been taken in the past decade. Was he taken as well? Yes, in a way, but it's not what you're led to believe. Though I could see what they were trying to do the film falls apart in the last half hour. It's all too convoluted and doesn't make sense if you think about it for more than two minutes. It's a tall order in plausibility.
