I do have to point out that I hate the shortening of “Until” to “Till” because there is only one “L” in the origin word BUT I digress. This is a very clever movie with an interesting casting choice for Megan Fox as our Scream Queen. Megan does an excellent job dealing with the hell she is presented with. A very thrilling and fun movie to watch, believable characters and motives, the pacing is excellent, I was never bored. Worth the watch and then some.
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(Trigger Warning Suicide)
We begin with Emma (the illustrious Megan Fox) and her lover but Emma is calling things off because of her husband. The next day is her anniversary with said husband and things are icy as ever, he gives her jewelry she doesn’t like, she gives him Super Bowl tickets he won’t accept. A lovely evening all around. The next morning when she wakes up though, hubby has gone off his nut because he shoots himself in the head just to make things hard on her, oh and did I mention he is handcuffed to her? Yeah, he is rather diabolical, especially because later we find out that he was also a cheater so him being so dramatic over her dalliance was just a big show since his career was ruined (which we find out halfway through the movie, but I digress again). Soon enough Emma finds that her husband has disconnected the phones, disabled her cellphone, and removed all tools from the house that would make removing him from her wrist easier.
Maybe I have seen too many horror movies (ha) but I would have blunt force trauma broken his dead hand right off his wrist. I would have used a door (the car door would probably be the easiest leverage wise) but I would get him OFF of me even if it was bloody. There is no way I would spend so much of my energy hauling his literal dead weight around. She also has glass from the vase she could break and pull a Gerald’s Game but on the dead hubby (NOT her own hand). She ends up using an anchor to remove his thumb which ultimately gets the cuff off of her husband but in my opinion she dragged him around for far too long (poor dear). But here come some more people! First Emma’s lover comes and she knows it is a trap immediately because it would be too easy if her husband had called her lover there to save her.
Right she was because the next folks who arrive are the brother of her attempted murderer and her attempted murderer! Wack! And the killer immediately kills the lover which the brother is all broken up about which is very adorable, he’s just a little guy who thought they were doing a burgle, not a murdle! Either way, the husband and lover are both dead and now the brother and killer are trying to find Emma and she is scared! As she should be! This is about when she is able to ditch her husband's corpse (also it should be noted that she is pulling a Die Hard and not wearing shoes the whole time, which is a bitch because of the cold and snow). She plays a little golf with the baddies and then gets got right after contacting the police.
Now the brother only wants to get into the safe but the killer wants to, well, kill, so we are at quite an impasse here. The brothers fight and the killer ends up accidentally killing his brother (woops) and he blames Emma (silly woman!) so he is even angrier but Emma slips the cuff onto him and now the killer has the dead weight of the husband's corpse! This is good because she needs to run away from this guy now and she has very little to protect herself, she is able to hit him with her car which was pretty cool, but then they go out on thin ice and fall into the freezing water! I was cold just looking at them! The killer was so focused on killing Emma he didn’t care that the body was dragging him down so he didn’t try to detach it from him and he drowned himself in his anger. Emma was able to escape and used the killer's knife to break through the ice just as the police arrived!
Jack Roth on Instagram: “I never usually do this but this is a nice one. Understanding tone at a young age. Think this was after many long days, grits and stitches in my hand. #deliverance #britsdownsouth #animals”
