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How I would have made this film better

posted 11 years ago by kidorset
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I really like the idea of a daughter letting her lover into her house under the nose of a watchful family. It adds an extra creepiness to the whole psychopathic family thing. I think it would have worked better if the older sister's teenage sex storyline was cut and it was revealed that the middle sister blamed her father for her mother's death and then marrying so quickly (maybe a shotgun wedding after the first wife found out about his indiscretion?) and she wanted a "real" family. It would have explained why she did any of this. I would have cut one of the cabin wives or at least made them more distinguishable. Why are they there? Why did they choose to kill their families for an old guy they met online? Like I said, the idea underneath all the crap is good, but the focus needs to be changed.

[–] jimmysmithx2 9 years ago

I agree with you, but I'm not sure how to make it better. The movie seemed to never really develop enough for it to be credible. Lorraine Nicholson (Jack Nicholson's daughter) appears just briefly in the movie and the first time is at the beginning to allegedly set it up for the new guy to move in when talking about the hit and run. I guess this was all part of an existing plan by Rose to help Arquette get close, but was that really even necessary? Why did he have to move into the cottage to achieve his goal of ending up with Rose? Rose still never really had any motive to be willing to kill her family. The dad seemed to care about her, her step mom seemed to have beef with the other sister. Rose was just kind of there and along for the ride.