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Why let her fall in the hole without digging up the place?

posted 12 years ago by targa9
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His wife is sucked down the hole and his reaction is, "Oh well. She's dead. Because even though I just discovered this basement, I know the hole is too deep to survive the fall. Let's visit her once a year and draw her a picture."
If it were me, I'd have called 911 and would have bulldozed that place if necessary. I would have at least dropped a line down there, with a camera (with the help of police) and figured out for sure where my wife was.

This movie pretty much sucked.

[–] ljones86-768-598858 9 years ago

Exactly!

And I am sure I saw a for sale sign up when the father and daughter bothered themselves to revisit the house, so now some other poor sap will be dragged down the hole!

Never mind, they left a lovely drawing in memory of the poor woman who gave her life for the child! When I first saw them, I thought they were bringing a few sticks of dynamite to sort out the wee blighters. Ah well, nice sentiment....

[–] transmentalist 9 years ago

Even horror movies have to adhere to some degree of credibility. Typically, the monster either escapes or all the witnesses die (or are deemed crazy).

In the original, she gets sucked into the hole with no one to see it; as far as everyone else knows, she just vanished. That's why they didn't dig up the house.

It doesn't make sense here NOT to dig up the house. They know exactly where the monsters are, and even had an actual corpse at one point. It was a silly way to end the flick.