First of all, let me start by saying that I enjoyed this movie and none of the plot holes ruined the experience for me. But there are several issues, and my review is just to point them out from a logical point of view:
The first time something weird happens, when the main protagonist awakens because of the floor creaking and finds the bedroom door open, and sees the dude making weird sounds while asleep on the couch, along with us seeing the basement door close in the background, of course that was the creepy mother coming out as she does at night, so if she is so aggressive at night when she comes out, even later to venture out of the house to try and take people back, why would she not have done anything that first night when we hear the floor creak and the door was ajar? There was obviously no shame in her game as we saw later in the movie, so why would she not have done anything to the defenseless sleeping people that she definitely saw in the house when she came out? Also how did she get out of the basement at all then, and later on, when the door locks and can only be opened from the outside? That's the first thing that doesn't make sense to me.
The second thing that doesn't make sense to me is if the home was listed on Airbnb and HomeAway, wouldn't the protagonist have seen poor reviews from other guests about the area? You could say, oh well the other people who stayed there were captured/killed by the crazy mother lady, so they couldn't leave reviews, well okay then do those other people not have relatives and friends that would file a missing persons report? That knew they were staying in that home? Traces of their transaction on these websites? The home was never investigated in the past? I mean if they would have gone into the police arriving and not caring or checking into it, which also doesn't make sense on its own, and explained that by saying the town police were aware of the lady and a literal serial killer living down there, and they were covering it up or had some agreement with them, then that would have been explained for sure in the story, right? I just don't think that was very well thought through. Also, almost none of it would have happened if the protagonist did the most realistic thing possible from the beginning, not stay in the home with a stranger, and definitely not venture deep into a potentially dangerous underground shaft/tunnel to find said stranger versus leaving and bringing the police back with her. I liked the movie and enjoyed it, but those elements made it feel amateur in its writing. Still a very good time, and I'm glad to have given it a shot.
The first time something weird happens, when the main protagonist awakens because of the floor creaking and finds the bedroom door open, and sees the dude making weird sounds while asleep on the couch, along with us seeing the basement door close in the background, of course that was the creepy mother coming out as she does at night, so if she is so aggressive at night when she comes out, even later to venture out of the house to try and take people back, why would she not have done anything that first night when we hear the floor creak and the door was ajar? There was obviously no shame in her game as we saw later in the movie, so why would she not have done anything to the defenseless sleeping people that she definitely saw in the house when she came out? Also how did she get out of the basement at all then, and later on, when the door locks and can only be opened from the outside? That's the first thing that doesn't make sense to me.
The second thing that doesn't make sense to me is if the home was listed on Airbnb and HomeAway, wouldn't the protagonist have seen poor reviews from other guests about the area? You could say, oh well the other people who stayed there were captured/killed by the crazy mother lady, so they couldn't leave reviews, well okay then do those other people not have relatives and friends that would file a missing persons report? That knew they were staying in that home? Traces of their transaction on these websites? The home was never investigated in the past? I mean if they would have gone into the police arriving and not caring or checking into it, which also doesn't make sense on its own, and explained that by saying the town police were aware of the lady and a literal serial killer living down there, and they were covering it up or had some agreement with them, then that would have been explained for sure in the story, right? I just don't think that was very well thought through. Also, almost none of it would have happened if the protagonist did the most realistic thing possible from the beginning, not stay in the home with a stranger, and definitely not venture deep into a potentially dangerous underground shaft/tunnel to find said stranger versus leaving and bringing the police back with her. I liked the movie and enjoyed it, but those elements made it feel amateur in its writing. Still a very good time, and I'm glad to have given it a shot.