December 24, 2014 -- This is a low-budget horror movie with a depressing story about a honeymoon that turns into a nightmare through no fault of the people involved. It achieves an effective level of suspense and dread. It doesn't really reveal its surprises until the end of the film. The story was unappealing and irritating.

Bea (played by Rose Leslie of the “Game of Thrones” TV series) and Paul (Harry Treadway of “The Lone Ranger”) are an attractive, happy young couple on their honeymoon at a summer cabin on a lake, but things start going wrong on the first night they spend at the summer cabin. There is a strange shaft of light shining in the window and Bea wanders off alone in the middle of the night.

Paul wakes up to find Bea gone, he finds her, standing naked, alone in the woods. Later, he finds her torn nightgown with some kind of sticky, slimy substance on it. At first, he suspects Will (Ben Huber) who runs a restaurant nearby. Will is an old friend of Bea's. Both Will and his wife, Annie (Hanna Brown) acted very strange when they met them earlier.

Bea starts forgetting things, like how to make coffee and French toast. She has marks on her body. When Paul asks her about the marks, Bea is evasive, saying they are mosquito bites, even though they don't look like mosquito bites. Then Paul sees the same marks on Annie when he goes to question Will about what happened to Bea.

Frightened and anxious about Bea, Will stays up all night, acting very strange himself. He sees a strange shaft of light coming through the window at night and goes out to investigate with a rifle. He thinks he sees something in the woods. Bea's behavior continues to get more bizarre. She forgets important things, like details about when they first met and how Paul proposed to her.

Paul decides they must leave the cabin. We wants to take Bea to a doctor and get her help, but Bea says strange, threatening things, like he is not going to be “allowed” to leave the cabin. She says she must hide him. He has no idea what is going on.

All is made clear later in the film. One of the games I like to play with these kinds of films is what I would do if I was in this situation. One of the frustrating things about this story is that you cannot play this game with this film. There are no safe options. That makes it depressing. Both Rose Leslie (a stunning Scottish red-haired, blue-eyed beauty) and Harry Treadway are fine actors. They are very convincing, and these are demanding roles.

The problem isn't with the acting. It's the story, which leads to an unsatisfying and mysterious dead end. Perhaps if the story had gone on longer so we could find out more about what happened with the survivors it might have been more interesting, but there just isn't that much to the story, which seems more like a story fragment. This film rates a C.

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