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Gabriel (Colin Cunningham) isn't an evil person per se, but he has just come out of jail and was pretty much forced to take the lowliest dead end job on the planet, so eventually when he found out how much the company made on his back, he just stole the payroll - and ran over and killed his boss (Tommy Morris) when making his getaway. Not a murder really, just an accident prone to happen to any criminal hothead. But that said, now two several agents (James Morris, Sean D. Hunter) are on his case, chasing him from state to state, but thanks to his girlfriend Carly (Jessica Staples), who drives him around in the trunk of her car, he manages to stay one step ahead of them. And his latest hide-out before his friend Andre (Jake Watters) is to take him over the border is an insignificant cheap hotel in the middle of nowhere. Thing is, Gabriel has to stay there - and stay inside - for three days, and he's not very good at handling cabin fever, and his feel of unease is only augmented by the noises coming from the room of the nice lady next door (Charla Bocchiocchio) as well as by the a little bit too nosy hotel manager (David E. McMahon) - and Gabriel doesn't even know yet there's a serial killer (William McAllister) in town who has fingered Carly as his next victim ...

In a way, this movie's somewhat reminiscent of Alfred Hitchcock's classic Psycho, what with the film shifting from a crime drama into a serial killer movie about halfway through, its motel location, and ... a couple more reasons that would be spoilers though. But all that said, He Never Left does do exactly nothing to ape the older movie, it's actually a very entertaining, well-written thriller in its own right, one that's fueled with quite a bit of irony and features many a surprise twist in a seemingly predictable story. And a very able cast playing well fleshed out characters of course also helps making this one nice genre ride indeed.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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