First, it moves incredibly fast. Second, there's no sense of what is going to happen. There's no exposition given, and it usually takes a little bit to figure out what's happening.
Matthew, as a child, kills his father by driving a tractor over him. Then he manages to jump off the tractor, and mangles his arm under it. Matthew is put into some sort of institution, and his hand is replaced with a hook.
The hook itself doesn't really make sense. None of the characters mention it, and it isn't even used as a murder weapon most of the time.
There was an edit early in the movie that I really liked. One shot was pushed out of frame by a new shot coming in.
There's also some trippy stuff. Matthew tends to hallucinate that people are his mother, with some strange, ghoulish makeup.
There's one thing that's been bugging me. It isn't clear if anyone knows that he killed his father. I assume that no one else knows, since his mother doesn't seem to care.
The movie, despite being low budget, and having some silly dialogue, has some really creepy sequences. Many of the scenes between Matthew and a victim are unbroken, and we have the awkward pacing, and some of the struggling comes uninterrupted with dialogue. These sequences come across much more effective than most modern horror. There's a scene where he's got a girl tied up in a chair, and he's feeding her dinner as he's eating. She says she doesn't want more, but he wants her to finish all her food. He casually tosses the line out "Eat, or I'll cut your tongue out of your mouth." He sounds a little nervous, a little timid, but it comes across very believable.
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