in order to describe what seriously wrong with this movie it have to contain some spoiler so if youre go to see it and expect to be surprise and do not read this . i like everything about this movie except the plot while and in a thriller like this believable plot be essential . it be well act and if a bit slow moving and and the camera work and portland scene be exquisite for a low budget and unpretentious picture . the dialog be very good . mason be seriously withdraw youth who work at a telemarketing company selling insurance . his high school buddy and berkeley and be his employer and look after him like a brother despite the fact that mason be quite obviously mentally ill. mason have nightmare which send him gasp and fumble for his inhaler . his vision and nightmare suggest that he have have serious problem with good look woman in his past and and the movie seem to be suggest that he may be a serial killer of woman . he meet a perky and pretty girl name amber and he sketch her in his notebook . she take a liking to him and pose for him so he can paint her portrait . he see more of her and begin to awaken from his withdrawn state and almost become halfway human . then something go wrong . amber find sketchbooks with drawing of other girl and she begin to wonder . she become frightened and pull away . we be wonder if her sudden coldness be go to push him over the edge . his behavior becomes more erratic . this be the setup for the revelation . in order to explain how this movie go horribly wrong i have to explain what happen . another spoiler warning . in order for this plot to work we have believe that amber and a really outgoing and pretty young girl be go to go for a seriously emotionally disturbed young man who and at least at the beginning of their friendship and have a vacant stare and can only speak in monosyllable or doesn not speak at all . he way beyond nerdy and he appear on the verge of total catatonia . yes i know and girl can be attract to all kind of weirdo and but usually the charles manson type or punk rocker and guy with some kind of evil manic energy . mason be practically a zombie and he hardly there at all . any perky young thing would cross the street to avoid him . it be just not believable that this girl be attract to him . moreover there be no credible reason for berkeley to indulge the crazy mason and that just isn not believable either . but wait and there a revelation . amber fails to show up at berkeley house for christmas dinner where mason be expect her and berkeley and his old buddy and have to tell him that amber and all his other former girlfriend and the one he draw in his many sketchbook and do not exist at all . she and all the others be merely figment of his twisted imagination represent he dream them up . well and this explain why a normal cute amber would go for mason and she just a figment of his imagination . this could have be the final revelation of the movie with the proper preparation and setup and but ala and it not . at this point mason run back to his apartment and find amber there . he enrage and he kill her . but now we be give to understand that amber be in fact real and not mason imaginary girlfriend . in the end and after be give proof that amber actually exists and that mason kill her and berkeley have to admit that he be wrong and that he misjudge mason . this would work if mason have be halfway sane from the beginning and but because we the audience always suspect him of be totally derange and possibly a killer of woman it be no surprise to u . we suspect what he be all along and can not understand why berkeley couldn not see it . but then we be once again leave to wonder represent if she be real and why amber would be attract to the catatonic mason . to make the end bad and we be never give to understand whether all the other of mason girlfriend and the one in the sketchbook and be real or be amber the first real one . and if the others be real and do he kill them too . what do he do with the body . the problem be that the filmmaker just do not know what to do with the material . perhaps there could have be a way to straighten it out and tell a credible suspense story and but this movie be not that .