I love suspenseful movies, but this one has a zero hint of what happened. I wanted something, but it gave nothing. Some disappearances were easy to see coming, others, not. The young girl in the bathroom knew she was going to vanish...So maybe they all could"feel it".
I loved the humor of the red
head guy.the more famous
actors should of had more
screen time.
I was on the edge of my seat
What's funny is I started suspecting there would be no explanation given. I don't know why, but something made me start figuring it. I am too nice and gave it a 6, anyway, instead of the 5 I maybe should have given.
shareI think you started suspecting this because all the questions/mysteries/plot holes in the movie are never answered. Not just the big ones like who is behind the disappearances (or even hints at who), but small ones like why would the lake freeze and did Noah disappear & magically come back or just fall in a ditch? At some point you realize there isn't enough time for all these unexplained things to come together and "no explanations" is the anti-climatic punchline to the joke.
shareWell, does it have to? Your own expectations failed you. Like another user said, the possibilities you invent in your mind are much scarier than anything the movie could execute.
I hate to use the term "spoon-fed," but... Many people who agree with you wanted to be spoon-fed definitive, conclusive information, and that's natural. I do feel the movie could've done more to insinuate what was going on. But to say the movie's ruined because it's open-ended is honestly *beep* imo.
(I know the poster didn't necessarily say he hated the movie for that.)
I imagined the lodge was saturated by an eldritch presence trying to enter our world. The character disappear, the power goes out, and the area grows colder because our reality can't comprehend such a force. The being's influence increases over time, as evidenced by the group's initial apprehension, to Alex's violent behavior, to the entire police force being erased simultaneously. Beneath the lodge, impossible geometric structures begin to shift, heralding the god's coming...
Why else would they find a noose in one of the houses? cx
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Nice reply couldnt agree more.
People just have no imagination these days and need spoon fed like children then throw a tantrum when everything isnt explained and they then have to use their brain!
We WERE given clues - the men in black , picardos title in the end credits being the "man in black" gives it a scifi/alien/wormhole possibility and the facts of the freezing lake and wildlife gone - all enough for the mind to start whirring away...Picardo also had a weird electronic device like a geiger counter when he entered the cabin!
I really enjoyed this film even though it was a tad slow at times , I found the acting to be not bad at all with the exception of a couple Suvari being one of th
All in all a rather good mystery movie and better than most of the ordure I have been forced to watch recently!
Could also be an Eldritch Phenomenon - the young girl who goes all biblical has a Cthulhu pendant on and Shub-Niggurath (Cthulhu Mythos), the Black Goat of the Woods with a Thousand Young, is an eldritch abomination, a being whose very existence defies natural law.
"Users of this ability wield god-like powers and are, for the most part, not bound by the laws of the universe. Their true form can not be grasped by mortal beings, and may be interpreted differently by different individuals/species, others create a collective delusion of their form. These interpretations can range from the unusual, to the awe-inspiring, to the mind-shatteringly terrifying. It is rare, but not unheard of, for the presence of such a being to benefit the universe it currently inhabits."
Perhaps the young girl wore a Cthulhu necklace to make her sudden change to biblical religious more drastic or maybe because she was a Lovecraft fan (so she appears more book wise or sci-fi savvy) or maybe the director/writer was a Lovecraft fan and it's just an easter egg for Lovecraft fans. The necklace really isn't highlighted or a focal point in the movie except some viewer guesses (and not much discussion here on that necklace compared to other strange events/scenes).
Picardo's title "Man in black" does give the possibility of sci-fi alien via the "men in black" movie, however, it also gives many other possibilities since "man in black" has sometimes been referred to as the angel of death or maybe the author meant "man in black" as a reference to the 1971 Johnny Cash protest song "Man in Black" for some reason or who knows what other possible meanings it could have as I'm sure Goggle can supply tons more or maybe it simply has no deeper meaning at all.
People just have no imagination
I finally watched the film. And I agree that any explanation that would have been given could not have been as wild and scary as our imaginations. Perhaps it was in the repeated words of Zack Ward's character about us disappearing and there being nothing left. It was as though each person's existence was being erased. From our point of view, in this world, when someone dies, they are erased from our lives, and whatever we have left of them is really meaningless to anyone who didn't know them. So once we die, we might as well not have ever lived. There is no proof of an afterlife, although I have faith that there is an afterlife. But since there is no proof, all we can have is faith. On the other hand, maybe they were taken by interdimensional aliens, or Cthulhu reached out its tentacles and pulled them into its world. We'll never know. There will be no sequel. This is it. We are all vanishing, one by one, and
shareNothing can be as wild and scary as our imagination, but by the same token, our imaginations can also underestimate, simplify and downplay a situation. People could assume your unfinished sentence at the end implies you died right there or were kidnapped and brutally tortured, but honestly... more likely people that read your post won't even blink and will imagine you just wanted to imitate what happened in the movie and make it appear you suddenly "vanished".
Likewise, nothing in the movie implied the people who disappeared were killed or even harmed (no severed limbs or corpses turning up). Some people suffer tremendously internally (not by other humans) before they die, but in the movie everyone vanished peacefully & quickly. They all vanished *with* their clothes... so whoever took them apparently wanted them clothed... if I was kidnapped I would want to take the clothes I'm wearing and not be naked so whatever entity did this must be intelligent & somewhat civilized.
The explanations that this was all in Claire's head or just someone's dream or only a computer simulated program (TheSims game, but thousands of years from now) are also perfectly possible and also make the whole situation far less scary. Those 3 explanations would also explain why some of the characters did some pretty stupid things.
Nevertheless, yes the movie is obviously meant to imitate about how we will all be forgotten when we die as time erases everything eventually. That everyone alive today will die at some point... but isn't that as obvious as saying everyone alive today was born at some point?
"It's an act of nature, and we'll never fully understand it"
Hey, if it worked for M. Night Shyamalan and "The Happening" I don't see why it wouldn't work here too!