“Trap” (**1/2 out of four) was a typically hit-and-miss and uneven M. Night Shymalahan horror thriller about a father (Josh Hartnett) who is actually a serial killer and takes his daughter (Ariel Donoghue) to a concert of a pop star (Saleka Shymalahan) only to find out there is a massive manhunt for him at the show and he has to improvise on how to escape. Starts off as spooky and entertaining in the vein of early Hitchcock but once they leave the arena the suspense peters out and film becomes arbitrary and silly. Hartnett and Shymalahan are first-rate and she actually wrote her own songs which are really good.

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