Never Let Go is a horror survival film that is pretty interesting for something with such a confined setting. The film is written by Kevin Coughlin and Ryan Grassby with Alexandre Aja serving as director. Halle Berry is in the lead role as a mother of two young twin boys living out in the woods in a somewhat delipidated house in fear of some nameless evil that could be just in her head. Her co-stars include Percy Daggs IV, Anthony B. Jenkins, and Stephanie Lavigne.

Halle Berry plays a mother who is uniquely paranoid enough and construct some kind of rope contraption to keep her and her children tethered to the house as they scour the woods for food. She has told them of some evil that led to the deaths of her parents and husband. She has concocted a number of strange rituals for her children. Then, one of the boys starts questioning the purpose of all of this and wonders if his beloved mother could be making a peculiar and dangerous mistake. There are horrific zombie-like figures in the woods which could be the mother’s hallucinations. The world that she has created for her and her sons is starting to unravel, and it’s not immediately clear if it’s because she is going even more insane or there is something truly evil lurking in the trees.

This film actually has some real suspenseful moments. Berry is a pretty good actress and delivers a pretty compelling performance here. The two young actors, Daggs and Jenkins, held their own alongside the Oscar-winning beauty. There were a few moments that were suitably creepy.

There seemed to be a few loose threads left that nagged a little, but the film was engaging enough for me to just go with it. The history of this family was not all that clear, but that could have been intentional. Hopefully, there is not going to be a sequel. The film is solid enough for me to live with any lingering mystery in the story.