PR: Sexual offender in '80s Detroit kidnaps at least twenty women, rapes them pregnant, and starts inbreeding until he creates some sort of super-strong she-monster that haunts the dungeon/super-sized basement/cave system the old guy built in his free time. Gotta love the shovel! Guy knew his holes, that's for sure. Now four characters battle against the monster and pretty much everyone dies, including the old guy but excluding the final girl prota that miraculously survives.
The old guy's timeline is kind of sketchy since even though in just one generation of inbreeding there can be defects here we're talking of a barely human monster, so let's be generous and say that's three generations. Meaning, an old guy (50yo) kidnaps a woman and rapes her pregnant, then she has a girl baby, let's suppose on the first try, and then, supposing he's also a pedophile, has to wait at least 13 years for the little girl's reproductive system to sufficiently develop.
So, now he's 64 and has to wait for another 14, making him 78, which means he's probably no longer fertile, but let's suppose he is, he'd have at least 82 years old, living in the basement dungeon without any source of food or other dailies for twenty years, making him 102.
If you ask me he should be dead by the start of the movie and the monster shouldn't exist. But enough with all that minutiae.
The movie is a minefield of plotholes, starting with the weird confusion of how they rent their house twice, how both characters agree to sleep one next to the other being both strangers, the fact that all motels are conveniently unavailable, the whole descending into the cave system without even a flashlight, the superhuman monster that apparently can live out of thin air, same as the immortal old man, the uncaring police is brought to an absurd point of thinking the protagonist that claims having being held prisoner is a crackhead, even though she clearly isn't, absurd shots and physics laws defied.
Taking all these problems into account and the fact that the plot was already quite boring, the result would be disappointing enough, if it wasn't for the ENORMOUS advertising it received from many, many critics. Saying it provokes long-lasting reflections (?), wildly unpredictable (??), bracingly chilling (???), and truly unique (????), making the disappointment at this shallow, predictable, boring, and quite generic movie even greater.
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