Riddle

Two high school seniors decide one day that it would be fun to take poor, timid, mentally challenged Nathan out for a joy ride and scaring the hell out of him by playing 'chicken'. After Nathan peed himself as a result (and really, what were they expecting) they stop at a gas station and send him to the bathroom to clean himself up. And then the boy vanishes into thin air.

Jump to three years later. Nathan's sister Holly is now a college student but goes home for the week to help out at the local farmer's market. When an apple drops to the floor and she goes down to retrieve it she catches a glimpse of a pair of shoes that are obviously her little brother's. She follows the man wearing them all the way to nearby Riddle.

It is obvious from the get-go that some of the inhabitants of the all-but-dead town know something about Nathan's disappearance and possibly whereabouts but are not willing to talk. Holly reconnects with a former high school colleague (who just happens to be the Sheriff's daughter and OMG didn't Val Kilmer used to look good whatthehellhappenedthere) and eventually the two idiots that were involved in Nathan's disappearance. (Side note: if you hire actors in their thirties to play kids of 21 years, make sure all of them can pull off that age...it is irritating if a 30 year old looks her age *cough* Diora Baird *cough* but is supposed to be of just-out-of-high-school age.)

Together they break into the Sheriff's office to retrieve the files on Nathan from 3 years back. It is then that they (and we) learn that both, Nathan and Holly, were adopted and their real father stabbed their mothe rto death. As a consequence, the kids were adopted and daddy ended up in an asylum for the criminally insane in, yes, Riddle. It is at this point at the latest that we know who took the boy. After losing the two former high school idiots (death by ax), Holly gets chased by daddy to the insane asylum (yes, sure, crawl into a locked and deserted building when you have all the woods to hide in, or, Idon'tknow, you could run back into town or something) where he tells her that the boy stays with him and she belongs with her mother. Why he doesn't kill her when he has the chance (he did stab the woman, remember) I couldn't say. He chooses to torture her with electric shocks instead, giving Holly the chance to set him on fire.

Yeah, it's crap.

1/10