The Secret Window

Looking back, this movie was ridiculous. It kept you on the edge of your seat until the end when you realize Johnny Depp's character, Mort Rainey, is just a psycho killing machine. The Secret Window gives you odd perspectives out of Rainey's life and has a twist that will leave you mortified.

Rainey, a published writer, is one day encountered by a man (John Turtorro) who claims Rainey stole his writing. John Shooter is a farmer from Mississippi who tells Rainey that he has three days to finish his piece or prove that Rainey wrote it first. But if Mort went to the cops, people would start to disappear out of his life. Mort remembers the exact date he published his writing but has to call on his cheating ex-wife (Maria Bello) to get ahold of the piece. That night, Rainey believes he hears something outside his window (not the secret one) and goes to look and finds his dogs dead body laying there. The movie goes through a whole plot on how his wife's house burns down and two of his best friends are murdered in a car.

The pieces start to come together with about twenty minutes left in the movie when Rainey begins talking to himself and realizes that he created the character of John Shooter who truly did not exist. He killed is dog, burned the house down, and brutally murdered his friends. But, just as Shooter had told him, the end was not finished. Enter cheating ex-wife and man that stole her away. Amy Rainey drives up to Mort's cabin but meets her fate in the garden of which was to become her grave. Her lover soon joined her. The madness does not end here. Rainey becomes "sane" again now that his paper is complete. The last scene we see is the sheriff telling Rainey that everyone knows and will prove it somehow. Rainey is eating corn...from the garden of which he buried his ex and her lover.

See, I told you it is ridiculous. This movie is not for the faint of heart or who absolutely love corn. I gave this movie a 6 out of 10 because I thought the plot was good until I found out Depp was a psycho. I think a different ending could have helped.