The Arbors

2020

Action / Sci-Fi / Thriller

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 24% · 5 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 24%
IMDb Rating 4.2/10 10 759 759

Plot summary

Set against a dreary small town, reclusive locksmith Ethan Daunes struggles to keep ties with his younger brother Shane. Ethan's life takes an unsettling turn after finding a strange small creature and forming a mysterious connection. After a string of unexplained killings, the creature's true nature is soon revealed, and Ethan finds himself at the center of panic and paranoia.

Director

Clayton Witmer Photo
Clayton Witmer

Top cast

Drew Matthews Photo
Drew Matthews as Ethan Daunes
Alexandra Rose Photo
Alexandra Rose as Lynn Daunes
Dré Starks Photo
Dré Starks as Man in White
Neil Soffer Photo
Neil Soffer as Mike's Corps
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1.07 GB
1280*528
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 2
2.2 GB
1904*784
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 59 min
Seeds 2

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Hex_0mega 4 / 10

It was good up until the point I really lost the plot

This guy Ethan finds a weird insect type creature feasting on a dead deer in the road and brings it home in a small pet kennel. The creature manages to chew through the cage door, so he then decides to construct a large, wooden box with breathing holes in it to contain it. The thing ends up biting him and he notices it is getting bigger, so he gets a chicken chick from somewhere and records the creature reaching it's spider-like legs out to pull it in.He tries to get his brother to come and take a look at the thing, but he can't because he is working. His brother asks him if he can watch his niece the next day and then he will look at whatever it is he wanted him to see when he comes to pick her up. He never tells his brother what it was he even found and as you may have guessed,it gets out before he has a chance to see it.When Ethan goes to check on the insect before his brother arrives, he discovers it escaped and finds his neighbor's teenaged son lying dead next to his garage. Note that the neighbor's son liked to pester Ethan. More bodies are found and there gets to be a point where you make the connection that this thing seems to be knocking off people that Ethan isn't particularly a fan of.About halfway through the movie, he finds his boss dead outside his house. His boss had just fired him. This is where it totally lost me... You'd think all signs point to Ethan as the one murdering these people and the bug is just a psychological thing. So, he calls his coworker Brody over and tells him what happened. He shows Brody the video of the creature killing the chick, which kinda contradicts any theory of Ethan being the real killer. Brody asks him what it is and he says he doesn't know.Somehow, Brody doesn't seem to be all that freaked out by this and just agrees to help him hide the body. While doing this, Brody is standing guard outside the car while Ethan takes the body into the woods to bury it. A cop shows up and asks Brody what he is doing, and Brody just starts booking it. He is taken into custody for the night while Ethan finishes up and goes back home.Ethan finds out his brother and sister in law and their daughter are moving out of state, and he gets upset and leaves a message on his brother's phone saying that he feels resentment towards his niece and sister in law. After that, you guessed it, they go missing. Ethan's brother goes to these little town watch meetings to try and figure out who is murdering these people and a fellow attendant who is a police officer slips up and mentions that they had caught Brody the other night but had to let him go as they had no real reason to contain him other than the fact he tried to flee from an officer.They all go to Brody's house with the intention of killing him because the officer spills it, and Ethan goes along. Ethan himself breaks in and shoots Brody. This made NO SENSE! It totally lost me really from the point that Ethan showed Brody the proof the creature existed and was growing in size. Ethan also ends up pulling a tooth out of his hand that dislodged from the creature's mouth when it bit him, so he had physical proof as well. Why murder his friend and coworker or even let the townspeople continue to stress over what is happening when he had proof all along of what was causing all the events?After he kills Brody, it appears on the news that Brody had been killed and he was suspected of conducting the dozen murders. The cop covered for him and said he killed him in a standoff. Ethan goes to this house where the creature seemed to live and had tunnels that lead throughout the city and burned it down and left. The movie ends after that. It started off good but then it just hit a point of frustration and confusion. I can't even present this with the 5 star halfway decent rating.
Reviewed by catrike 3 / 10

He protected the Spider

What is wrong with this guy? Ethan covered up for laboratory experiment mutant spider every chance he got. He could have told the Police or the Vigilante group but he just remained silent. Then he made Brody the patsy for the killings. Everybody will think Brody was the Killer because now the killings will stop. Ethan was the real Monster in this movie.
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