Too many holes mar psychological thriller

WALTER Stackhouse (Patrick Wilson) is a mild-mannered architect in 1960s New York with a successful practice, a dangerously neurotic wife - and a fascination for grisly crimes that serve as source material for the short stories he writes in his spare time. His resentment towards wife Clara (Jessica Biel) has reached the stage where he starts to fantasise about killing her.

Then he reads a newspaper article about a …