Don’t Move

2024 Netflix

Rated: R

Length: 1 hr 32 min

Horror ~ Thriller

Directed by: Adam Schindler and Brian Netto.

Starring: Kelsey Asbille, Finn Wittrock, Moray Treadwell, and Daniel Francis.

“The World takes what it wants.”

Kelsey Asbille stars as Iris, a young mother who lost her young son to a tragic accident. She has gotten up before her husband, left her cellphone and instead grabbed a swiss army knife, and is headed out to the car. She drives to the park where Iris and her husband had carved their initials into a tree. While they were doing so their young son Mateo wandered away from them and fell off the cliff nearby. Overcome with grief, she carves an M into the heart and initials she and her husband had carved. She then walks to where Mateo fell off the cliff and prepares to jump over the edge. When she is suddenly interrupted by……..

Richard (Finn Wittrock) who just happened to have come up on her apparently about to commit suicide. He sits down and starts to talk to her in the hopes of dissuading her from jumping. He eventually does and heads back to his car. Iris catches up with him and tells him that she has changed her mind at least for today. She thanks him and tries to get onto her car realizing that Richard has parked his car a little too close. He apologizes and comes around to assist her holding an umbrella, which he then uses to stun her. It is a stun gun posing as an umbrella. When Iris comes to……….

She is in the back seat of a car bound by zip-ties and Richard is driving. He explains to Iris that he is a serial killer and has abducted her. He has injected her with a paralytic that disables her motor functions but will leave her fully aware. It takes twenty minutes to render her paralyzed from the neck down. Richard explains to Iris that he is taking her to his cabin so they can have a “Wonderful Weekend” together. Anything I say from here on would be a major spoiler alert, so, the resulting dilemma, hunt and chase to get away from Richard the serial killer is a non-stop nail-biting thrill ride.

There are some moments that were a little unbelievable if you thought about them too hard. I’ll leave it at that, it’s entertainment….take it at face value. In the end it was worth the journey. I thought Kelsey Asbille did a great job portraying the semi-paralyzed Iris trying desperately to escape from a serial killer’s evil grasp. Even though she was just about to kill herself, she now has a deep desire to live and get away from Richard. Finn Wittrock I’m not familiar with but I don’t think I would watch him in anything else. I mean how hard is it too play a demented person? I wasn’t real keen on his acting but there wasn’t much depth to the part so there you go.