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Decent but idea not original


This film was a pretty decent horror film, having good dread and good jump scenes. And I liked Angelica Lee in the Eye and Komma, so when I saw she was in this film, I went ahead and bought it. It was worth the money. However....
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As I was saying....However, the concept behind the big movie twist, which by the way can be easily figured out well before it is shown, is not an original idea. Frank E. Peretti wrote a book entitled "Tilly" that concerned a mother meeting her aborted "would have been" daughter. Not to say that the writer took the idea from this book, but just saying he wasn't the first to use the concept. BTW, I would challenge anyone who is not cold as a rock to read this book and not shed some tears. I'm a grown man, an not overly emotional, but I couldn't do it. Definitely worth the read.


"Do you know what's really scary? You want to forget something. Totally wipe it off your mind. But you never can. It can't go away, you see. And... and it follows you around like a ghost."

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I Liked the movie. It was pretty good.
You seem pretty cool you like all the movies I like xD

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an old book named "Lilith" by George MacDonald.

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Still, how many movies can you compare this to? It's pretty original to me, because I can only relate the movie to Alice in Wonderland. =)

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You say it's not original because you know of a book that it's similar too? In that case no movie in the last 20 years is original.

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Oh come on, don't compare this great movie to Christian bullsh!t writer Frank E. Peretti!!! It was much more, and I found the idea of a world where all the things that were discarded or thrown away end up very original, I haven't seen it anywhere else. And BTW, the big twist in this movie was not who the little girl was, if you think that, you missed the point! The twist was who the protagonist really is and why she ended up in this world, and this has nothing to do with abortion.

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I liked the movie well enough, but the reason I don't think it's very original is because it rips of a lot of elements from the Silent Hill games. And don't say it is casual because there are sound effects that are directly taken.

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