The Twisted Ones

2.5 stars.

Mouse and her dog Bongo head to the Carolinas to clean out her dead grandmother's house. Not only was her grandmother an awful human, but Mouse discovers she was also a total hoarder. And there's weird stuff in the woods.

I was excited about this one, since I'd heard good things about it. But it gets repetitive and tedious. The characters are likable but not truly engaging. The dog is cute. But it never fulfills the promises of its own creepiness. There was quite a bit of wandering around the woods and cleaning a house that should have been bulldozed right away. This whole fiasco could have been avoided if the main character has done just that. Her reasoning for staying wasn't quite believable enough when she's faced with weird creatures cobbled together from dead things and trash and flora. The setup doesn't work for me, and the conclusion was almost anticlimactic to me. It could have been great, but it just didn't quite make it.