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Another Movie with Dumb Victims


I remember watching this movie in the early 80's but forgot most of it. After watching it again, I'm reminded of the clueless people throughout horror films. You'd think that these ones would take a hint and leave the area instead of stopping at every gas station or resort they could find just to run into more psychos. Seemed like after every incident, they completely forgot what happened. Let's stop here and have some drinks. We're fine. What could possibly go wrong after all we've been through? The end was befitting for these people. I'm surprised that they didn't go back to psycho town and rent a hotel room. I enjoy classic horror, but this was too conveniently void of sensible characters.

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Are they really dumb victims? The bad guys are just as dumb, the whole area is a part of the cult, meaning even if they did tell the cops what good would it do? They go to the crime scene and see nothing. The cops being in on it wouldnt actually tell anyone that mattered, so it wouldve been a completely internalized crime that the victims could never actually prove occurred.

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I think they wanted to report the crime to police departament outside the area and that was one of the reasons why they were after them.

I really felt quite distressed at not receiving an invitation - Maleficent

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