The film credits mentioned that the screenplay was "based on characters created by Wes Craven" although Craven was uninvolved in the film""s making.The film has some similarities to director Michelangelo Antonioni""s provocativeBlow-Up (1966), Brian DePalma""s thrillerBlow Out (1981), Tony Scott""sEnemy of the State (1998), and Gore Verbinski""sThe Ring (2002).See the way he handle on those pruning shears match her gardening clogs? That""s not an accident.That""s our neighbor, Jim, and that""s his lover, Jim...Man, I get exhausted just watching her.She wasn""t always like this.She used to be happy.Weused to be happy.He also mentioned the strained relationship with his angst-filled, ""goth"" teen daughter Jane, an unconventional beauty who was going through a phase with self-image and self-esteem issues, sensing she was an unwanted, invisible wallflower.[The same flashback plot device, told by a dead man in voice-over, was copied byAmerican Beauty (1999).Crouching behind a small pickup ruck, the cowering and whimpering Nick became the next victim whenIndominustossed the truck aside and he was left unprotected and exposed.