Gotham’s Chris Chalk stars and makes his directorial debut with this thriller that brings in loads of twists and turns.

Chance and Grace have been married for a year. Chance sees Grace has been stressing over her work as a novelist and decides for their anniversary, to bring her to a remote cabin to celebrate along with some close friends. Joining them for the celebrations are Mila and her boyfriend Remy, Kit and her wife Laila, and Lacey along with her boyfriend Doug. At first, things are going well as the group plays cards, the guys play with a bow and arrow out back, and everything just seems to go well.

That is until Doug starts to toke up and begins to get aggressive towards the group. This sends Chance to have an accident in which he cuts his finger off. Instead of going to the hospital, he asks to go upstairs and rest as he is in shock. Soon enough, the rest of the group begin to receive strange packages which leads to a mysterious figure picking off the group one by one. Who will survive this anniversary and who is responsible?

Chris Chalk, known for his role as Lucius Fox on the series Gotham, has come up with a thriller revolving around relationships. One would consider from the title that it would be about an abusive marriage. However, it’s not the case here and becomes more of a thriller about the couple and their friends being hunted down one-by-one by a mysterious killer. It does help that the film is set on the anniversary of the couple, Chance and Grace, played by real-life couple Chris and K.D. Chalk.

Chris’ Chance comes off as a little strange at first, but he has good intentions at helping K.D.’s Grace come up with ideas for her novel. She plays some of the ideas off as farfetched, but he totally gets it. Once they arrive at the cabin, things go really well between the group of friends. However, within the group there are some bad eggs that come off as aggressive and they are the type of characters you just want to see them get theirs because let’s face it, they deserve it.

The death scenes are a nice mixed bag of jump scares, disappearances, and some bloody goodness. As mentioned, some of the deaths are well deserved but others not so much and you can only feel for the ones who don’t deserve them so much. The reveal is a bit predictable, but still, the lead up to it works pretty well.

Our Deadly Vows is a pretty good directorial debut for Chris Chalk. He gives some interesting twists in the story as pulls off quite a performance as the husband while naturally his wife K.D. Chalk also pulls off a good performance as the wife. Some of the characters you want to see get theirs will be pleased.

WFG RATING: B

Global Genesis Group presents a Golden Concorde/Triangle Road Entertainment production. Director: Chris Chalk. Producers: Jacques Derosena, Lex Kimbrough, Eden Marryshow, Shaeda Moghaddam, and Cesa Pledger. Writer: Chris Chalk. Cinematography: Lex Kimbrough. Editing: Lex Kimbrough.

Cast: Chris Chalk, K.D. Chalk, Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut, Eden Marryshow, Cesa Pledger, Chantal Nchako, Natalia Woolams-Torres, Byron Bronson.

Now in theaters with a VOD release set for August 1.