I was pretty well entertained by this. I watched it in one sitting, and it kept me wondering what was going to happen next. In spite of this, there are plenty of problems with this movie, mostly from a script standpoint.
Both the protagonist and antagonist are entirely unlikable. The one person who seems slightly moral is an idiot. Normally this isn’t a problem for me, especially if the story is strong. But there’s a lot of space in this story to stretch things, to make every perspective reasonable and easy to empathize with. It also creates a problem because the protagonist is in danger, and we know that there are two ways the story can end. He’ll either win or lose - live or die. There’s no chance they’ll go for an ending where the two of them manage to work things out and fall in love. Even if they did, that might make it more of a disturbing movie.
The thing that seems off to me is the rest of the family being in on this method of finding a husband. Everyone plays being disturbed pretty well, but it isn’t the same as Texas Chainsaw Massacre, where the whole family has a benefit that comes from their craziness. Here, the craziness is centralized on benefiting one person. This doesn’t ring true.
The script does do a nice job in one scene in particular. The protagonist has an opportunity to escape, and his reason for sabotaging himself makes perfect sense. Of course, this is in contrast to the ending, where he chooses to make a ridiculous mistake.
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