Rosewood Lane (2011)

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	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: Victor Salva (Jeepers Creepers 1-2)
	Actors: Rose McGowan (Planet Terror), Lin Shaye, Lauren Vélez, Ray Wise (Chillerama, X-men: First Class), Daniel Ross Owens
	Country: USA
	Genre: Thriller
	Conditions of visioning: 14.09.2014, Blu-ray, Home cinema
Synopsis: After her father's death, a young psychologist (McGowan) comes back to live is the family house on the outskirts of New-York. The odd behavior of the local paperboy (Owens) disturbs her.
Review: Victor Salva's Jeepers Creepers 1&2 are my favorite recent horror/boogeyman movies. To decide if you would watch his latest movie Dark House at the MFFF2014, I wanted to watch his more recent work and Rosewood Lane was it. The atmosphere set in this thriller follows a bit the recent fashion for Home invasion movies, but with a strong and interesting background for the characters. Salva managed very well to depict the behavior of a sociopath, i.e. someone that would attack you for no reason in particular (unlike if you had provoked him first for example) but just because he feels like it. This kind of behavior is difficult to confront because it is not natural and against what regular people usually do. Psychlogy is important is this movie, by the way the main character is a psychologist, so that you really feel involved when the characters are threatened. Unfortunately some sub-stories fall flat: why does the police not believe her, what is her exact relationship with her ex-boyfriend, why are the neighbourgs acting so? It is not a bad Thriller in the end, with some originalities, but something is missing to make it really good.
Rating: 5 /10