Unwrap The "The Gift" For Thrills & Chills

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) - "The Gift" is a heart-stopping, fast paced psychological thriller written and directed by first time director and actor Joel Edgerton that asks the question: What if someone you wronged long ago reemerged through a chance encounter?

Simon (played by Jason Bateman) And Robyn (played by Rebecca Hall) are a young married couple who bump into an acquaintance from Simon's high school.  Simon doesn't recognize "Gordo" (played by Edgerton) at first, but after a series of unexpected encounters and mysterious gifts, a horrifying secret from the past is uncovered.

Gordo was bullied by Simon.

"I simply had the idea that it would be cool to make a story about a man roughly my age, 20 plus years out of high school, and get a tap on the shoulder.  I think we know each other and how terrifying that could be," Said Edgerton.

While creepy Gordo seems to turn up everywhere offering gifts, the audience soon realizes Simon isn't the nicest guy either.

"If you've seen Jason Bateman's directorial debut in Bad Words, you will see how good of being a jerk he can be and  in this movie you will see a more dramatic side of Jason.  It's a real treat for the audience, I think," Edgerton said.

Edgerton thanked CBS4's Lisa Petrillo when she told him he was super creepy in the film.

"The idea that nothing is what it seems to be, for me, is so cool.  It's the story within a story," said Edgerton.

It's the gifts that the couple keeps receiving that makes this film even more ominous.

"You give me a gift, it's my job is to say 'thank you'," said Edgerton.  "And if I don't the balance is incorrect.  We build to a place where the gifts start to become very bad and very unsettling.  We are supposed to love gifts and what if we were given one we didn't want to open?"

And then this happened.  Gordo, or actually Edgerton, gave Petrillo a gift in the middle of the interview. The card read "I miss your dancing days, Gordo."