Frightfest 2016 Film # 4

I've tried to keep this review spoiler free but this is really the kind of movie where it's best going in knowing as little as possible.
A dark psychological thriller with themes of loneliness and obsession, a film that toys with expectations and never goes down the expected route. Dominic Monaghan stars as Seth, socially awkward, he lives alone and spends his days talking to the dogs at the shelter where he works. On the bus journey home one night he spots Holly (Ksenia Solo), a girl he remembers from school, he tries to strike up a conversation with her but she isn't interested and soon smitten Seth becomes obsessed with her, stalking her online,…

"The more you think about it the more you remember the parts that you like" - Holly,

Jenette McCurdy is not transitioning well to adult acting.

So. who do you root for between a creepy MRA incel guy and a psychopathic violent woman with some seriously bad habits? In Pet, Merry the Hobbitt is suffering from intense PTSD after the destruction of the one ring. While working as a janitor and stoolie in an animal shelter he kidnaps a hot woman he went to high school with so that he can have his way with her....or is it for another reason? Yeah it's for another reason, this isn't a rape film.

At one point a barking dog sound is used…

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I was loving this right up to the part where it falls in love with its ideas too much.

There is a lot to like in the first two acts. Reminiscent of Fowler's wonderful book The Collector, it gives us a twisted look in the mind of a socially awkward, rather sociopathic man (a wonderful performance by Monaghan). As we see him slowly devolve and take actions that become increasingly disturbing, we get sucked into a story where we just don't know where it will go and just how disturbing it will get. You know that feeling of exciting dread only the best in the genre can conjure up.

And then there's a twist. An…

What I just put in you, it's called pancuronium bromide, it's a paralyzing agent. It stings a little. Don't worry, it's safe, I tested it on myself.
-Seth

A great twist on the abduction horror story with two great leads in Dominic Monaghan of Lord of the Rings and Lost fame along with Ksenia Solo who I do not remember from Black Swan.

First two acts have great pacing, setup and tone. You have Monaghan as Seth, a man who's inexperience with love is apparent as soon as you meet him and than you have Solo as Holly a woman that he remembers from high school because she was a popular girl... she has no recollection of his existence. It's…

Pet is about A SIMP RUNNING AROUND SIMPIN ALL OVER THE STREETS!

And really, that’s this movie. A man, who actually is simple minded, falls in love with a girl, but she's not interested, and he gets rejected. So, he decides he’s done being the reject and does one of the most simp thing a person can do, he captures her and puts her in a cage to try and “fix” her.

There are lots of movies like this. Tons of movies like this, and I didn’t think this would be anything special, and then halfway in the movie... and this became the best “I locked a girl up in my basement” movie I have ever seen. This films works…