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What were the bets for? * spoilers *

posted 19 years ago by wreckage-1
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Can someone help me out? When the one kid finally manages to hack into the website, they find that the site had betting odds.
Now, maybe they specified, and i just missed it, but I can't figure out what these odds were for. The only possibility I can see is that they were betting on who would die first, but the fact that the website owners planted a 'killer' in the house means they probably had some degree of control over that. It also seems silly and uninteresting to bet on the whims of a single member of the house (i.e. the killer and when/how/what order he decides to actually kill). I guess it's possible also that the odds were just another 'part of the game'.

There were a number of things which the movie did not clear up. Now sometimes, this can be a great technique to keep viewers guessing well after the credits have ended, but in this case, it really just annoyed me more.
I think this movie had great potential, but the acting was poor, and dialogue weak, which turned an interesting premise into mediocre film at best.

Anyway, that's irrelevant for now, I just want to know, what the heck were website subscribers betting on.

[–] 19 years ago

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[–] jonjon1428 18 years ago

perhaps they were betting on who would be the nexted to be....uh...."voted out of the house"

[–] padzok 17 years ago

Maybe the betters were betting on who the murderer was.

But even if they were simply betting on who would die next, then that's far less random than betting on where a roulette ball will land...

[–] lisab5552000 17 years ago

Maybe but did we ever find out if the first one who died did kill himself or if he was killed? I wasnt really paying attention so maybe it was shown.

Because they found the site after this and the bets were still going so if they'd already seen the murderer kill it seems kind of pointless.

It took me a while to even get that it was a ';snuff site' really, my first thought was that they were trying to torment the people in the house as much as possible until they killed themselves and thats what people were betting on.

Betting on the murderer does sound like the only thing that would really make sense though, to me anyway.

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[–] robbie-hermans 17 years ago

or they just placed their bets on whou would be the sole survivor

[–] hpypgn1027 17 years ago

But it was a foregone conclusion there wouldn't be one -- this wasn't the first house, from what we could tell, and the customer base for this sort of thing would be small enough that we can assume it's all repeat business, so the viewers new everyone would die, and presumably that there was a killer in the house. The first time he acted, it would be caught on camera, so there's no mystery as to who it was. So I agree, the betting made no sense.
A better scenario would have been to not interfere as they did . . .just get five people with problems, put them in a house cut off from the world with no way to escape, and push their buttons until the killing starts. In that case, you could have a survivor, since the killings would all be by the housemates - and presumably, the last one standing would have had to commit at least one, while the site operators could claim innocence. The survivor wouldn't exactly be in a rush to call the cops, ya know? And then there'd be actual suspense and/or uncertainty to bet on.
Eww. I'm too good at thinking this stuff out.

[–] Sarah_Canfield 17 years ago

I doubt they would have used the same plant every time. At the end, Matt has a beer with the guys from The Company and asks what happens next, and that's when they kill him. I guess they imply that they'll do the same set-up, and let Matt be the killer next time (while he makes a tidy income from it) but it's cheaper and easier just to off him and get a new one - to keep the game going for their clients.

If that is true, then the betting does make sense - though we still don't know what they're betting on. I don't think they're betting on who dies next - because Danny never gets good odds (then again, I know jack about betting, so maybe that does make sense), but they could be betting on the last person to die - Emma, in this case, maybe they know that the last survivor gets locked away to die slowly, which will probably tide the clients over until the "next season" starts. Or they could be betting on who is the plant this time as they can't use Matt next time, and there's no indication that they've used him before (if you listen to the commentary by The Company, they ask him if he's ok after killing Charlie, which implies that it was his first time).

A better scenario would have been to not interfere as they did . . .just get five people with problems, put them in a house cut off from the world with no way to escape, and push their buttons until the killing starts

Yeah, that would be interesting, but there's no guarantee that five people would start killing each other. If there's no plant, the five might just bond together and forge a really good friendship, admittedly, from what I've seen of Big Brother, this seems unlikely, but still, no guarantee of murder, which would not please the rich clients.

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[–] Hekubus 16 years ago

Please bear with me if I make any mistakes here but it has been awhile since I saw this. The way I remember it is that the betting was about who gets killed first and how they get killed and who the killer actually is. It wasn't all explained on the website they find but the cop kinda fills in some blanks. All the people in the house are just people they find wherever and the killer is just some guy who wants to see what it would be like to be a killer without just going out and killing for nothing. How he was found and picked I'm not sure but that is what I remember anyhow...

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[–] hell-cat-1 11 years ago

I assumed the bets were for the last one standing, who would be the last one left in the end. I mean even if they knew Matt was a plant, he could have still been killed, Emma almost killed him. They could have made him earlier and ganged up on him, who knows. But I think the bets were for whoever would be the last one and it was Emma.

[–] Posh_babe 9 years ago

Why would the "reality" show go on for 6 months? They were there that long and wouldn't the clients be bored?

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