Mr. Jones is a horror thriller film and the feature-film directorial debut of Karl Mueller, who also wrote the screenplay.

[2] Scott (Jon Foster) and Penny (Sarah Jones) move out to the woods for a year to make a nature documentary.

Scott flies back to New York City where he discovers that Mr. Jones is an elusive artist who has been sending his artwork to random people across the country with no rhyme or reason.

Darkness falls and suddenly Penny is terrified as thunderous growls fill the air and she glimpses a disfigured face watching her from the bushes.

Scott enters the house and goes down into both the basement and the sub-basement where he finds a huge underground maze of tunnels filled with more stick figures.

Time is also distorted as they experience a night that doesn't seem to end, even though their clocks indicate it should be mid-morning.

Immediately they are separated and Scott runs into a duplicate of Penny who urges him to return the doll that he stole.

He then puts on the mask he was left with earlier and pulls up his hood, making him look quite strange and bizarre.

"[3] He was also inspired by the memory of a neighbor of his during childhood in Minnesota, as the man had lived in a "primitive shack of a cabin with no running water, trapped animals, and hung them up around the woods.

[5][6][7] Dread Central and The Hollywood Reporter both wrote mixed reviews,[8] and Dread Central commented that while the film was "nicely shot" and the acting was good, the final portion of the film was "hard to follow and sometimes even hard to see" and, "By the time I got to the final ten minutes, I had had enough of the ongoing trippy scenes and was absolutely ready for the end.

"[9] IndieWire criticized Mr. Jones for never fully delivering on its promise and compared it negatively to films created in "screenwriting classes during workshop sessions", as they felt that the movie was "sloppy".

[10] In contrast, Bloody Disgusting praised the movie and stated the film, "captures the visuals of a nightmare" and "gives the deeper viewer plenty of panicked thrills".

[12] One Star Classics largely agreed, emphasizing that fans of surreal films might get more enjoyment from the movie.