horror be perhaps one of two genre where logic doesn not always win out over imagination . we all know that killer like freddy and jason and michael and even leatherface shouldn not be able to sustain the amount of pain they do and still live to fight another day . most of u do not believe that zombie really rise from the dead to stalk people and eat their brain . and let hope that at least some people know that when you enter place like funhouses and old mansion that unspeakable crime be not go to be perpetrate against them . this be where imagination win out over fact . horror and and most film in general and require u to suspend our disbelief for a couple of hour and just go with the flow . this usually isn not a problem when i watch bounce ball be hurl down the stair at george c. scott or when i see an unseen force stalk three amateur film maker in the wood near burketsville . but what i do have a problem digesting ( without want to regurgitate ) be when a film have a killer like the one in this film . to give away who the killer be would actually be a huge spoiler and it would take away all fun of watch it for yourself and but just suffice to say that i actually enjoy this film right up to final scene when the killer be reveal . there be too many event in the film that transpire for it to make any sense that the killer be who it be . but the 90 minute prior to this point be a well do and suspenseful and blood soak film direct with panache and skill by john hough . if the film would have offer me a different killer and then i would actually be rave about it . this may sound like a completely asinine reason to discredit the film and but believe me and anyone who have see the film be almost sure to agree with me . john cassevetes play dr. sam cordell . he and his daughter jenny ( play beautifully by erin flannery ) have just recently move to this small new england town . cordell be a recent widow and it be unclear how his wife die . we see several flashback scene where a mystery woman ( one can only presume it be his wife ) be lay backside on the ground during a torrential downpour . her face be bloody and her eye be close . again and i be not sure who this woman be and what relevance she have to the story but she be there anyway . cassevetes and it have to be mention and be strange to say the least . cordell be a love father but his love for his daughter seem to be a little more than just parental . there be a few scene that hint of incestuous possibility . it never come to fruition but it just seem to be omnipotent and but somewhere just beneath the proverbial rug . thankfully the film never really explore this element of the relationship but it do make you a little uneasy . casevettes seem like a cross between the porno actor john leslie and screen great james caan . he have a deceptive smile and a virile and commanding voice that make you sit up and take notice . but he also look like he be about to disrobe during a business luncheon in every scene . he just have that slimy and disingenuous and phlegmatic and uneasy way about him . he never really look like he can be trust in this film . i guess that be a credit to the writer and the director and to cassevetes himself . there be always something that just bother me about his character from the get go . the story begin on an excellent note a two would be lover be swim in the local quarry . there be a rickety old change shed near by and a we can see and something or someone be watch them . when the young man briefly disappear to get something from the truck and the young woman wanders into the shed and just to play a prank . once she be there and she be attack . the young man dash to the shed to find her and he be impale with a board and nail . hough shrewdly set u up for the payoff pitch when the young man come in . he look frantically scour the room and spot his would be lover bleed in the corner and and then smacko and the guy get it . it be a very tense moment and it start the film off on the correct note . also introduce into the tangled wed of a story be a young man name tim that seem to be have strange dream of a faceless woman that be bind in a torture chamber surround by men with cloak cover their face . tim seem to think that his dream have something to do with the murder because every time a murder take place and he have another dream . toss in a quiet and turbid grandmother and a meretricious female reporter and a strong yet venal local sheriff and you have all the ingredient necessary to create the making of an imbroglio in the small town of galen . throughout the film more people be massacre but most of the time and the male be slaughter with extreme prejudice and the female be rap . this be my first feeble ( and careful ) attempt to tell you that this be what leave me unconvinced with the denouement . it just do not strike the right chord . the incubus be a well do film . it be tense and tight and even most of the performance be very well do . i be intrigue by the dream that tim be have and i be anxious to find out what significance they have to the story and ultimately to the murder . but when you get through all that be good in the film and you be still leave with that acerbic taste in your mouth . and bitter pill be always more difficult to swallow than sweet one . positive this could have be a nine . too bad .