I own this movie and havent watched it for years,so last night I watched it. In the opening sequence we see a young man running through fields to see an older man . he tells the man his mother sent him because a creature is out in the woods. then the boy runs back through the fields home.
if a creature is in the woods why would you send your young son out there? did I miss something?
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Mom might be an invalid, or she might be tending a baby or younger children.
But the thing that always bothered me about the scene is that despite the fact that the kid is obviously distressed and brings the guy a message of some urgency about somebody prowling around the house (presumably still there at that very moment) - the old codger chuckles it off and says he'll "check it out tomorrow!"
I always imagined him moseying by the next afternoon (or maybe even the day after that) and finding the family murdered in their beds.
"If you don't know the answer - change the question."
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I don't think he ran through it; I think we're supposed to gather that he was thrown through it by the creature.
But the single biggest flaw that I find with the film is the almost cartoonish "ooh! - shudder-shudder!" delivery of the narrator.
A film of this type needs something deadly serious and spoken with an almost clinical detachment; this guy, however, sounds like he's reading fairy stories to a bunch of pre-schoolers.
"If you don't know the answer -change the question."
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