The horror/thriller genre thrives from protagonists who've never watched a single horror/thriller. They go all alone to foreign countries, unable to speak the language, meet total strangers, and follow them into far-off abandoned apartments where nobody can hear them scream while they're getting chopped up. Curiously, the soundtrack, eerie at opportune times, understands our heroine's dangerous situation better than she does, and while rising star Teresa Palmer is terrific as someone suffering from Stockholm syndrome (likely the movie's namesake) ... either I'm too paranoid of such real-life risks, or the insane naivete of such characters totally undermines the premise.
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