This is partially explained by the sudden appearance of Lucy ( Gia Crovatin), Mina’s sister, but odd things continue to happen as the night goes on. ) else is lurking in the darkness caused by the faulty electricity. There's also the fact that, despite Mina’s insistence they are alone, there are also noises and movements that suggest that someone (or something. For starters, the house-one of several that Mina claims her family owns-is literally a castle that practically oozes Gothic atmosphere wherever one turns. Even after the point where she asks him if he's married, and he stumbles over the answer as badly as possible.īetween the drinks already in his system (which didn’t stop him from driving her home), the glass of Maker’s Mark in his hand, and the focus on getting Mina into bed, it doesn’t quite register to Hap that the situation he's in is even stranger that it appears. And yet, Hap is so confident of player abilities that he continues his ostensibly low-pressure pursuit. Mina does invite him in but it's quickly apparent that guys like Hap are not unfamiliar to her she has a way of twisting virtually every line of his smugly complacent patter on him, always leaving him on the defensive. But it's fairly obvious that he's hoping the evening will end with something more than a pat on the head, as it were. Hap ( Justin Long) and Mina ( Kate Bosworth) met earlier that night in a bar in the city, and because he's a “decent guy,” Hap has volunteered to drive Mina home out of the alleged goodness of his heart.
With his latest film, “House of Darkness,” LaBute tries something similar to "The Wicker Man." And while the results may not be nearly as outlandish this time around, they do make for an intriguing and occasionally quite witty battle of the sexes, in which not all of the bloodshed is strictly metaphorical.Īs the film opens, a car with a couple inside approaches a large house in the middle of nowhere.
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