the poster who call this plotless and pointless literally take the word i would have use in my subject line . the only thing i would add be passionless . for a film make by a real life marry couple and feature lot of graphic sex scene this movie manage to make what should be a sultry situation into one beyond ice cold . dafoe and colagrande look bore during the sex scene and and the viewer might as well take a valium and have do with it . also and please and the woman in the audience have see way too many used tampon in their time and and any guy who be turn on by see willem dafoe pull a bloody tampon out of his wife vagina really need to get therapy . i think the key to the film ( if there be one ) be the restaurant scene where a waiter explain to the perpetually sleepy eye dafoe what a deconstructed jambalaya be . ( all the ingredient of the dish still separate rather than simmer together . ) this movie be a deconstructed thriller . all the element be there represent spooky and isolated house and dead spouse and creepy violin on the score and weirdo caretaker who come and go a he please and auto accident death and near death and character with a secret past . basically every thriller cliché you can think of and but nothing come together . everything just sit there and never mesh into a coherent plot or even an artsy mood piece . at the restaurant and dafoe pass on the deconstructed jambalaya . prospective renter of this mess would do well to leave this deconstructed thriller on the video store shelf .