It starts with a bank robbery by an actor who looks exactly like a young Ray Liotta. The cops get his license plate really fast so there's an APB out on him and he takes refuge in this house in an affluent neighborhood by pretending to be a friend of a close friend of the guy (Hyde Pierce) who lives there. The criminal had looted the mailbox and saw a postcard from a gal named Julie so he pretended to be a friend of hers. He concocts a story about his cousin not being home yet and that's where he was going to stay so he was wondering if he could hang out for awhile till the cousin came home.
The "perfect host" says sure, though he's having a dinner party in about 30 minutes. Well, here's where the fun begins because Hyde Pierce is a crazy man and his dinner party guests are maybe not real people and he drugs the robber and ties him up and then regales him with images of other unwanted guests and what he did to them; he keeps a picture album of them.
This movie does not turn into a SAW part 32 but gets really psychologically twisted with the robber turning the tables on the host; or does he? and the real identity of Hyde Pierce is a super surprise and the twist about the bank robbery and ending are all done very well and everything is unexpected.
I gave it an 8.
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