Two couples rent a beautiful beach side home for a fun weekend away but things do not go as planned.

Charlie (Dan Stevens), his girlfriend Michelle (Alison Brie), his business partner Mina (Sheila Vand) and his brother Josh (Jeremy Allen White) who is Mina’s boyfriend have big plans for the weekend. A hot tub, some ecstasy and a hike are all in their plans but right from the start things seem a little off and some external friction will result in the group imploding.

Dave Franco (who co-wrote the screenplay with Joe Swanberg) delivers a fairly bloodless tense stalker/slasher film where the group of individuals in trouble are so hung up on their own personal issues they barely seem to realise that there is a much greater external threat.

Charlie is big and brash and clearly has a thing for his business partner Mina, whilst younger brother Josh who has had run ins with the law is scared that he is not bright enough for her. Michelle (played by Franco’s real life wife) is completely innocent and oblivious to everything around her and is wounded to discover some of Charlie’s previous relationship history whilst Mina is skeptical of the entire trip thanks to the seemingly racist man renting the property (Toby Huss). When they discover cameras in the home they are too wrapped up in their own relationship issues to sound the alarm.

All of the characters are very much archetypes to fit the mood of the film, but they work well together and allow you to form preferences and attachments to them based on their own particular behaviours. Whilst all four actors do a great job of making them interesting and believable.

I really enjoyed the tension and threat that builds through the taught 88 minute running time and it certainly might make me take a closer look the next time I rent a holiday home. The film also features a nice coda that makes the villain of the piece even more scary than first imagined.