Villains (2019)

A young couple is robbing gas stations on their way down to Florida, but hit a snag when their car ironically runs out of gas on a little-traveled road. But, hey, there's a house right there with a car in the garage and no one's home! Too bad that house has some truly twisted owners and they arrive home before the robbers can get out of there.

I've seen this kind of thing before -- where the scariest people in the room are also weird enough to seem easily beatable -- but this felt a bit brighter than most. I think it was the young couple, who clearly believed in each other and were the opposite of hopeless. I wasn't rooting for them in the generic "get yourselves out of there!!" way; I truly hoped good things for them.

The denouement was an especially sweet touch.

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