A town that welcomes ex-cons with open arms—and buries their secrets even deeper.
When society turns their back on reformed felons, the town of Graves End welcomes them but when the ex-cons disappear, FBI agent Paul Rickman comes looking for them and discovers more than he expected.
Acting
Eric Roberts fully commits to unhinged small-town mayor energy.
Direction
Marlowe wrings genuine tension from a shoestring budget.
Director
James Marlowe
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was director James Marlowe's only feature film; he vanished from Hollywood afterward like his characters. Spooky.
Shot in just 18 days in California doubling for the South, it exemplifies the mid-2000s direct-to-DVD thriller boom that streaming killed.
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