two escape convict step out of the wood and shoot two camper in the head . that the first scene and and it make me wince and fear what be in store . but by the end of the first half hour i be all sweep up in the flood of image . not because i care in the least about any of the character but because i be aghast at how execrable the film be and be curious to see how truly low it could sink . frank ( remar ) and red ( woolvett ) be the ex inmate . after murder the two innocent camper they plow through the wood and wangle their way into the isolated cabin of dean stockwell and his two son and the attorney keith and the estranged homosexual behr . the escapee at first pretend their car have break down and they need to use the phone and but they gradually reveal their identity . well and it look like familiar territory so far . desperate hour and or funny game maybe . but hang on the gay son be in cahoot with the two . it seem that stockwell and upon discover his son in flagrante delicto with another man name billy and kick billy around and throw him out . billy go on to die and behr now blame his dad for the death . and and indeed and dad be something of a neanderthal when it come to paraphilias and the fact that he be just find cohabit with a secretary notwithstanding . the grief stricken behr just search and search and look for someone else who have know billy and someone with whom he could share his despair . it turn out to be one of the escapee and and now behr be determine to see them to their freedom . it get all twist after that . people talk . they talk and talk . they talk continually . and not about the two mad killer who just can not wait to put one between their eye . no the dialog go something like and you be just so scared of something inside yourself that you even drive away your own son . that behr and the young gay guy and talk to stockwell . it a if an afternoon domestic drama have have it gene mix with a killer thriller in some kind of transformational device or cocktail shaker . the only real performance be give by james remar a the more talkative and ominous of the two escapee . and that mainly because of his gruff but fluid baritone and which sound like lance henrickson and and his wide guppy like lip . he easy on the eye and ear . dean stockwell have give decent performance and include his inestimable bizarro turn in blue velvet and in which he be my support player and but here laziness and advance year and or slack direction have shape his every move and every utterance into a stereotype . it a if he be read stage direction look surprised and shout angrily and follow them literally . there not a surprise in a cartload . if the gay son and jason behr and ever blink and it must have be while i be blink at the same time because i miss it . he have a long neck and just one expression in his instrument . woolvett a the secondary villain fade into the pine knot panel woodwork . the attorney son be robert glen keith . i hope he do not quit his day job . the direction be pedestrian and the staging functional without be in the least innovative . sometimes it confuse . i lose track of where everyone be suppose to be a the killer be circle around on the cabin porch and the family have lock itself inside with a shotgun . i also couldn not understand how stockwell could put a blast through the cabin door and hit remar and and knock him in a back flip off the porch and and then remar could simply stand up and dust himself off and and come up with a cranky riposte like and okay . two can play that game . but why go on . see it if you must .