If you're coming into this from expensive and pretentious horror franchises like the Saw, it won't impress you. This is one of Mumblecore's forays into genre cinema, and it's a timid naturalistic indie film at heart. It's a decent film if you have the patience for low-key drama and can stomach a grisly image or two. Its most questionable feature is that it imagines even its murderous antagonists as the shy, introverted little white kids typical to Mumblecore. Ex-cons should be more hardened.

Grim, bleak and melancholic, "A Horrible Way to Die" is a well acted, well paced and suspenseful thriller that suffers from questionable cinematography and an irritating shooting style but to focus on anything but the well structured, believable characters would be to miss the point entirely. Did not see the twist coming at all.

"As a horror movie that feels more like a mumblecore drama that a serial killer passes through, it's deaf to its own shifting tones." - Kalvin Henely

Liked the "nothing's-really-happening-but-in-a-really-authentic-way" kinda vibe of the movie. Then came the ending and really sucked, but still...