Cabin Massacre

After her jerk of a husband racks up a $25,000 debt with a couple of underground bookmakers, a pregnant woman has a visit in her kitchen from a stranger who holds a knife to her throat. She loses the baby shortly after it is born, and the two of them decide to relocate to another part of the country away from his creditors. Not content with this, and ignoring her advice, he continues to drive while clearly tired, and falls asleep at the wheel, crashing their car miles from anywhere, but of course there is an isolated house nearby, a farm house in this case, which is inhabited by a hospitable although somewhat strange individual, his wife and their deaf farm hand.

They're being incommunicado, they are invited to stay the night. Clearly their host is a bit creepy, but it is not the sort of thing you can put your finger on, and what other option do they have? It is clear too from the beginning that this house is more "Hotel California" than "Little House On The Prairie", but what comes next?

Their, or rather his, earlier misadventures are told in flashbacks, wherein we learn that the debt is actually much more than $25,000.

There is it is true a spectacular twist at the end, one most people will not have seen coming, although there was a hint with the photographs on the wall, and the farmer's wife insisting on taking their photographs too. The real question is though, is it worth sitting through the preceding gratuitous sadism that most viewers will have foreseen, if not the actual quantum?