An isolated man living in the back of a desolate caravan park is visited by a desperate young woman seeking shelter from a violent storm. As the savage storm worsens, these solitary souls begin to feel threatened – but who should really be afraid?
What We Thought:
For about 85% of You’ll Never Find Me I was into it. It’s pretty much a single location film, a trailer at a trailer park, with two characters talking back and forth. One is a younger woman who gets caught in a rain storm and knocks on the door of an older man living alone in said trailer. She’s looking for a way home or at least be able to make a phone call.
Throughout the movie you try to figure out which character is the good person and which one is going to be the monster of the two. Both seemed to be lying. Both seemed to be telling stories they later contradict. He’s the loner type so you’re thinking him, but her backstory is all over the map one time coming across as a tourist trying to get to her hotel, the next she says she’s a local. He claims to have a dead wife. She claims to have been at the beach and then also a pub.
It’s all that misdirection that keeps you guessing and trying to figure out what’s going to happen. It’s like the cold opening of Barbarian when you get introduced to two characters and you have to decide which one is going to lose it. Is he being nice and helping her out or is she in danger? Was her knocking on his door late at night random or on purpose?
Unfortunately the third act of You’ll Never Find Me loses me. I don’t like the result of the build up nor the outcome of these two people. I don’t know if I feel cheated, but the ending feels too generic for the tension. All movie long it wants to be a psychological thriller and then goes too far with the mind games especially the very end. The two actors do a great job holding your attention throughout the film, I just wish the ending stuck the landing more.
Directed by Josiah Allen and Indianna Bell
Written by Indianna Bell
Starring Brendan Rock and Jordan Cowan
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