the Statue
Remind anyone else of the Pazuzu Statue from The Exorcist?
I just saw this movie and I loved it.
I thought i had seen it before somewhere looks so alike 2.
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Yes it reminds me pazuzu a lot. Same tooth, mimics and the wings. But wings are much smaller
And carmen's dress was same as regan's but I liked the movie a lot .Everything was uniqe except dress and the statue. I wish they had used some other statue and dress. I think those details shadows the orginality of the great movie.
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Have to say the statue really really un-nerved me. when she looked up the second time it really made me jump!
shareThat Statue was the creepiest thing I've seen in a long time and it's pretty hard for a movie to really creep me out. I kept thinking about it way after the movie was over. Well done!
shareYea the statue creeped me out a fair bit, to
Especially with the light above it, which even though it was bright, you still didn't get a clear idea of what it was, till you got up close and...erm, "personal".
I was half expecting it to come to life and attack her, but the fact it didn't, just made it all the more creepy
Totally agree, the statue in the fog on the hill was an ingenious concept, and probably the highlight of the film
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Someone should put a tarp over that statue! Would save a lot of time...
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sharehaha, you are the winner!
shareBut Carmen heard growling and heard Sara's false voice before even seeing the statue. So I'm not sure that seeing the statue is necessary.
Besides, the person handling the tarp would have to sacrifice their life to cover it.
So...question:
Spoilers!
Was the point that the two girls had walked into the mist and seen the statue but the guy didn't? Sorry if I'm dense.
Yep, the girls became possessed but the guy didn't.
shareYah pretty much the point of why they couldn't leave.
shareHow did the villagers know the girls saw it and the guys didn't?
shareHow did the villagers know the girls saw it and the guys didn't?I'm not sure if this was an important part or not ... but I noticed both of the girls had thrown up (some sort of colored liquid - yuck lol) after they'd seen the statue.
Also, I'm going to assume that the villagers would've killed all 3 of them as a precaution, but once they noticed the guy had never had any of the "symptoms" of seeing the statue and helped kill the possessed girl, they realized he'd never been exposed to the statue.
I have no idea if that's correct or not, but that's the way I understood it.
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One thing I liked about this movie was that so many things were just hinted at, not fully explained. Made the movie quick and to the point - we were caught up in the moment - and too much explanation would have made it all seem cheesy. It was instead....mysterious! :)
shareOne thing I liked about this movie was that so many things were just hinted at, not fully explained. Made the movie quick and to the point - we were caught up in the moment - and too much explanation would have made it all seem cheesy. It was instead....mysterious! :)I agree. Sometimes it's better for a movie to, like you said, hint at things but leave it up to the audience to believe or assume.
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They just know. When a doctor sees the same ailment many times, he'll know it immediately. Just like the woman in the farm house. She looked at her and knew right away. The people probably figured out they were out there and sent the child to draw them into the killing room, and she locked them all in, or maybe she just followed them herself, and knew her civic duty was to trap them and get help. Whether she knew who saw what didn't matter, because they can't just let people go running off and talking about this *beep* or turning into the demon. They need the priest to make the call.
shareI figured the villager knew Carmen was possessed because she had that dress on. All the bodies they found were wearing the same dress.
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"It is curse. Left on our land long ago. It cannot be undone."
Whoever sees the statue is possessed by the demon. The ritual is to cleanse the human soul and drive out the demon. The b**** of it is, they have to kill you to do it.
I knew that statue looked so familiar. It's been a while since I've watched The Exorcist, so I didn't think about it until I read your post.
Gotta say I was horribly creeped out ... esp. the part where she walked into the smoke/fog and walked around the statue, then looked up and noticed the statue had turned its head and was looking at her. I actually enjoyed this movie .. I was somewhat surprised by the twist.
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*beep* the statue. marcus should have shot the cultists and saved his girl. this movie sucks. I hate when a movie is going good but then is ruined by a *beep* ending
shareI thought the ending was pretty good...at that point she was completely possessed..i think the demon or whatever just used her to get marcus to help her out but it wasn't really her
The only thing i didn't like was that it ended abruptly...but overall very happy with the way the movie was...enjoyed it a lot!
I disagree that it was a bad ending. But it's a matter of personal taste.
Good guys destroy bad guys, everyone gets away. The End. Very Hollywood. Done to death.
We are confused about good/evil, and we realize part way through to movie to see things a different way and realize we were mistaken about some initial assumptions. Clever. Non-Hollywood (ish).
I've seen 800-gazillion horror movies, and the best are the ones that have something different or make me think. This wasn't great cinema by any means (obviously very low-budget) but original!
I'm a horror movie fanatic and will watch anything and give it a chance, except when it is overdone, ie. zombies, active footage films or epidemics. But, if it is from George Romero or looks like it might have something different I will give it a try.
I do wish they would have explained a little more about "who" the statue was and what the curse was, but it still made a hell of a movie. The statue itself did remind me a little of The Exorcist with a different type of interpretation, such as eastern European as opposed to Middle-Eastern, and I did find that interesting.
It was entertaining and enjoyable and better than the usual horror movies that I have seen around, and they didn't spend a load of money on it as it was mostly at places where the cost wouldn't be much to replicate. I really liked it.
I could see where it might remind you of the scene but the statues themselves are quite different (IMO of course)
Not sure how to quote but Zikten said:
"*beep* the statue. marcus should have shot the cultists and saved his girl. this movie sucks. I hate when a movie is going good but then is ruined by a *beep* ending"
Makes you wonder if he even watched the movie (or maybe it was just bad sarcasm?). Had Marcus just shot the cultists and "saved his girl" which he basically did... he would have ended up with a possessed crazy woman who would have murdered him
You are NOT getting it, There was no saving her, once you see the statue you're possessed. If saving her had worked, none of the events would have played out like they did. He DID save her. She turned on them and caused the carnage, Would have happened anyway.
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