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Grenade-proof horse!


The slayer hero throws a white phosphorous grenade in front of the horse-drawn cart which has in it the chick he's trying to save. I'm like, "He better time that right..."

So, it blows up right in front of the horse, or right underneath it from the looks of it, and the horse isn't burnt, and the dad and uncle aren't either. Go look up WP grenades and how they worked in Vietnam; the horse, the two guys, the cart, and hell, the chick should all be on FIRE! Even the hero, he was too close to it! Yet the horse survives to pull the hero and chick away...

Reminds me of the hand grenade in the original Fist of the North Star anime that is thrown right next to a guy holding a little girl hostage, and it blows him up and not her. My buds and I still to this day mock the "smart" grenade. (Actually, a computer-aimed shaped charge woulda made sense in a scifi setting, but that's not what this was...)

That's another thing, the hero only wings the cultist dad with his shotgun, and then jumps in the cart with the chick to escape... F' that, if I was raised and trained as a slayer druid, and I had the drop on the evil, their-own-family-sacrificing ghoul worshippers, I woulda emptied that shotgun into them center mass and followed up with headshots. Nope, our bitch hero who can't act runs away even though he has a gun and they don't...

Also, the hero pats the horse to send it on it's way as a diversion, and he calls it Willy. Did I miss a part where they named the horse? Or did the actor screw up and call the horse by it's real name he knew? There's an earlier scene where he can't get the damn horse to stop...

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