Great title for a movie, but not as good when you watch it.

It must be really easy to make a movie...

Nothing says menacing bad guy like David Arquette

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Victor Browne, Kristen Dalton, and Morissa O'Mara in The Cottage (2012)

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The premiere of The Cottage with Charlotte Barrielle

Kristen Dalton and David Arquette at the premiere of The Cottage.

The female cast of "The Cottage" October 2012

David Arquette

Kristen Dalton

Victor Browne

Nick Antosca

When Chloe and Michael Carpenter rent out the cottage behind their house to charming romance novelist Robert Mars, their American dream soon turns into a suburban nightmare.

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The Cottage

Vanishing Plot Points and Lapses of Logic

Family rents &quot;cottage&quot; -- actually a two bedroom, two bath home, fully furnished, with swimming pool, modern appliances and lovely hard wood floors -- to romance writer who has a red pick up truck but no typewriter. He tells the lady from whom he rents the names of his three most recent novels...so, for the rest of the film (somewhere between 80 minutes and 5 torturous days, depending upon perception) I wait for the lady to look up his books on line for some major &quot;reveal.&quot; If YOU had a successful author renting from you, wouldn&apos;t you look up his books on line? Nope. Okay, David is excellent as the &quot;renter&quot; who is up to plenty of no good but the plot holes are big enough for his pickup truck, and the behavior of the family is the face of suspicion and terror is absurd and senseless. Apparently not only did the writer/renter not have a typewriter or word processor, neither did the screenwriter. Only worth watching for villain&apos;s performance.

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Family rents "cottage" -- actually a two bedroom, two bath home, fully furnished, with swimming pool, modern appliances and lovely hard wood floors -- to romance writer who has a red pick up truck but no typewriter. He tells the lady from whom he rents the names of his three most recent novels...so, for the rest of the film (somewhere between 80 minutes and 5 torturous days, depending upon perception) I wait for the lady to look up his books on line for some major "reveal." If YOU had a successful author renting from you, wouldn't you look up his books on line? Nope. Okay, David is excellent as the "renter" who is up to plenty of no good but the plot holes are big enough for his pickup truck, and the behavior of the family is the face of suspicion and terror is absurd and senseless. Apparently not only did the writer/renter not have a typewriter or word processor, neither did the screenwriter. Only worth watching for villain's performance.

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