Nice portrait of the average American.

(Spoilers)The storyline with moonface wasn't complete. How did the old guy even fit into the scenario? He just seemed like an extra character thrown in with no real story. I guess I could let it pass for the sake of anarchy and chaos within the story to create tension, but it wasn't very satisfying.She seemed inept at defending herself before she broke up with him, why would she suddenly be MacGuyver/Jackie Chan after breaking it off, even after he attacked her? You can't suddenly know how to load a revolver and build arrows out of elastic from your panties. Her traps in the woods weren't believable; that nail file arrow thing would've bounced right off of her in the real world due to a lack of force.Most of the time, you want the audience to support at least on of your characters. There are certain situations where you might want all of your characters to be deplorable, but I don't think that would work for this story line... because it didn't. I hated every character.The guy who directed this is also working on the film adaptation for John Dies At The End, which doesn't surprise me. I haven't read the book but it sounds awful and the film will probably be awful too.

i love joe r. lansdale(the author of the short story this is based on), this has always been one of my fave short stories by him. in any case, i'm just thrilled to see his stories made into films, gotta be good money in it for him, & it makes happy to know he didn't have to spend any of his precious writing abilities on making the extra cash.
i've directed this story in my head hundreds of times, and think the actual director of this did a good job. hate the extra 15 minutes of "it's made for tv, so we have to put BS in it to entertain the idiotic masses" love stroy. i did like the ending, close to something the author would have done, other than killing the old man, & the rape scene. joe would more likely have her kill her husband (or drive the drillbit through his eyes while he was still living) just because he was a dick in general.

{SPOILER} This describes my viewing mood throughout the piece. All in all it was almost a really great watch till the ex in the trunk. They should have either left well enough alone or had the old man or some other rapist in the trunk who maybe she through her traumatized state mistook for her ex. I don't know, if I did I would be the one making $ but the ex in the trunk was too cliche for me. As with all the best recent horror, they took a decent film and disappointed with the ending. I gave 4 stars because overall it was decent fun gore.

The plot has been regurgatated. I had the feeling of deja vu the entire time viewing this episode. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, so I researched what other horror-type movies have this plot and the answer is...a bunch of them!
That said, I felt it was watchable and wasn't disappointed.P.S. True Oregonians don't usually take off into the unknown woods when a creep-o is chasing after them, especially when said creep-o probably knows the area well! Just sayin.'
Oh, and it most certainly didn't rain enough for Oregon ;)

this episode felt like a full length movie with the dual story lines...great juxtapositions of calm lovey dovyness to crazyness, and a series substantial plot turns that were not very predictable, and some pretty surprising. random old man though, i thought he was some weird puppet at first... i think moonface used to be some crazy back-wood militia religious fundamentalist and that's what inspired his bizarre pilate complex.