Another of my unfortunate encounters with a low-grade thriller that's somehow found its way into the "horror" section of Tubi, "Trap House" follows Detective Grant Pierce (Jamie M. Callica) as he, with the help of teenage drug dealer Fibs (Peter Bundic), seeks to avenge his dead brother by infiltrating a drug trafficking organization headed by a mysterious madman who rigs the gang's den with booby traps that mete out painful ends to anyone caught in them. That sounds like something that has potential for "Saw"-like returns, but "Trap House" director Nicholas Humphries is no James Wan. This is a plodding thriller that takes forever to get going and, when it eventually does, fails to take advantage of its premise with satisfactory heapings of gore and elaborate death traps. Sadly, it's all very formulaic, right down to the attempts to add depth to its characters (like anyone wants that in a movie called "Trap House") that feel plucked from the Lifetime playbook. The movie even drops a baby into the middle of proceedings to try and give the movie a sense of urgency it is desperately lacking. Ultimately, this movie takes itself way too seriously, and decent turns from Peter Bundic and Michael Eklund aren't nearly enough to save it.
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