Absolutely amazing

I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

As one reviewer mentioned you can't really write anything about this movie that would be a spoiler. There is NOTHING in this movie that you don't see coming from a mile away. Well except for that by the end it never actually forms a cohesive story or gets any better. SPOILER!The opening scene was a foreshadowing of the movie's extremely flawed logic and believability. Our protagonist Rose arrives at her fathers house where the police are investigating the circumstances of his death. He's just been found dead at the bottom of the stairs to the basement. The detective not only lets her into the house but also asks the police to give her a moment alone with her father's corpse on the basement floor (you know standard police procedure). It's been laying there for some time and has begun to decompose and she places her hand on his forehead while sobbing uncontrollably. This is MEANT to be an emotional scene, a daughter grieving for the loss of her father, and not WTF creepy. Seriously!From there is just does a logarithmic downward slide into dumb. The entire movie is a series of stale and tired horror clichés. Anything that could be "thrilling" is broadcast from miles away so NOTHING is surprising when it happens. The nursery rhyme thing is embarrassingly cliché and makes the killer's even dumber and less convincing. While the movie gives you some history about the protagonist explaining why she should exist in the context of the story it never develops the paperman's character. Is he just a psychopath? is he some sort of supernatural evil being? Why hasn't anyone complained to the newspaper that their deliveryman is a monster who scares the hell out of them? He breaks into a women's house, assaults a District Attorney, and the police do nothing, why? Speaking of which what the hell happened to the DA at the end of the movie? His disappearance and a threatening call to the main character's show (a nursery rhyme...ughh) was the setup for the final conflict but then they just completely forget about his character and never explain what happened to him. The movie ends at the paperman's funeral but WHO THE F%#K ARE THESE PEOPLE AT HIS FUNERAL!?!?! Who the hell would have even paid for it?!?! Nothing anyone does in the final scenes of the movie make ANY logical sense. The climax is laughably stupid. It's one of the worst and least satisfying endings I've ever seen. If you still feel compelled to watch because you want to know what is this disastrous ending we reviewers are talking about then here's what you do: Watch the first 15 minutes then fast forward to about the 1hr 1min mark. Enjoy! All you need to know is that at some point in the movie the DA tells Rose a story about his childhood in which some bullies buried him in a hole with just a snorkel for air (yeah I know that means he couldn't have been buried much more then 1.5 feet and should have easily been able to escape but whatever..) and he wasn't found for a long time. Also that's not her dog (where did it come from? doesn't matter!). There is no point at all to watching anything in between. You're welcome!

"Rosewood Lane" is a quite solid mixture of a gripping psycho thriller and a haunting supernatural horror movie. It may not be an excellent film but it's an entertaining, intense and suitable B movie for genre fans.The plot isn't the most original one and somewhat predictable for genre fans. On the other side, the fact that the viewers might guess that certain events are going to happen even adds to the anxious anticipation. The movie's atmosphere plays with the audience's expectations. I also liked the somewhat controversial ending of this movie.Honestly said, some of the characters in this film are rather shallow and quite stereotypical. Their actions are as predictable as stupid. Still, the frustration and nervousness the viewer feels towards the characters raises the emotional connection to the film itself which is a positive element.The acting isn't extraordinary but solid enough to keep the audience interested until the end. The cameo appearances of cult actors such as Lin Shaye and Ray Wise are a nice gimmick for genre fans as well.The movie is directed by the controversial Victor Salva and has a similar style as his other movies such as the surprise hit Jeepers Creepers. This film includes several autobiographical elements since the director has had a complicated relationship with his family like the main actress and since he has already worked as a delivery boy similar to the main villain. These elements are well integrated into the story line and add some content to an ordinary plot, depth to an average acting and emotions to an otherwise predictable effort.The atmospheric elements of this film are solid. The lighting techniques are suitable since a lot of scenes are taking place in the dark. The Locations are simple but efficient. The sound techniques are quite good and include uneasy moments of silence, nerve-wrecking whispers and quiet sounds but also sudden noisy movements and spoken word passages. The score isn't unique but it adds to the sinister atmosphere. All these elements offer at least a handful of creepy moments throughout the movie and one or two light jump scares which is what I'm expecting from such a movie.Overall, "Rosewood Lane" is a well done horror movie that turns out being entertaining over ninety minutes. It's not the kind of movie I would watch at the cinema, purchase at full price or judge as a genre highlight but I would definitely watch it again, suggest it for a horror movie night with a couple of friends and tell you that the harsh reviews are a little bit too cynical, exaggerated and serious. Genre fans should try this flick out without any hesitation.

I was very happy when I saw this movie in the television I thought "Hum, there is a long time that I saw a thriller movie. I've sit my butt in the chair to watch a movie that in the begin, I was loving "A typical horror movie" But I can't understand the ending. There's not even the why! What the hell happened to him?! They are twins or it's a freaking black magic?! I was nervous with the hide and seek, the murder. But there's not a god damn explanation for nothing! You know,in a good horror movie there IS a explanation at the end. A NOT EXPECTED EXPLANATION!! But there is a dumb crappy end. I don't know who's gonna like this crap!

Three things persuaded me to give Rosewood Lane a try: Victor Salva at the helm --- despite his checkered past, the guy is one of the few really unique stylists of horror out there; Rose McGowan --- this actress can sell virtually anything, given her hard-as-nails delivery and charisma-to-burn personality; and the sheer absurdity of it's premise: a paperboy terrorizing an entire neighborhood.For the first 45 minutes, this film was a delight. The first encounter between McGowan and the psycho (effectively played by Daniel Ross Owens) couldn't be creepier and more immediate: he deliberately wedges his foot in McGowan's door and proceeds with a mental psych-out while hard selling the virtues of subscribing to a real newspaper. The kid's virtually pupil-less eyes are a Salva-esque touch that gets even creepier when rolled completely back in his head.At it's heart, this is really just a standard mad-stalker-slasher film, but it distinguishes itself (at first) by how blatantly sociopathic the villain is: he shows up casually in McGowan's basement (the location where he murdered her dad, by the way) threatening her in the first 20 minutes! This is disturbing stuff because, really...what's to prevent some nutjob from doing the same thing to you? Unfortunately, after the half-way mark, this film devolves into same-old, same-old. A pet is used as bait (something I really hate, if only because it is THE most hackneyed move you can pull in a thriller), and everyone you'd expect to get butchered, does, after very obvious set-ups.It's worth a look for the first half alone, and McGowan really does sell the hell out of this thing...she's simply amazing. She brings such realism and humanity to every role, whether she's got a machine gun for a leg (Planet Terror), being crushed in a garage doggy door (Scream), setting up Marilyn Manson to take the fall for accidentally killing her BFF (Jawbreaker), or pleading for her life while being battered to death in a speeding stunt car (DeathProof). It's a shame Rosewood Lane winds up failing HER, in the end. She COULD have saved it, otherwise.