I had to trick my friend Victor into watching this with me. I understand that the book is really good, and I want to read it. I think the movie would have made a lot more sense if I had. The movie though... William Dafoe's and Robert Pattinson's considerable talents were wasted. I had no idea what kind of movie I was supposed to be watching or what was supposed to be going on other than they basically died from complications due to cabin fever, and drinking lamp oil is a bad idea. Was this supposed to be a horror movie? Thriller? Drama? Maybe if it hadn't been so visually dark, I would have been able to tell. Listen as we basically spend half an hour asking each other what just happened and being really confused.
