It's a good watch but...


I just came across this movie on netflix with no expectations . I enjoyed this movie up until the ending. The last 5 mins kinda killed this movie for me. It was a good build up to a lame Finnish. But overall... it was still a good way to kill some time on a boring day at home.

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My thoughts exactly. A great buildup for very little payoff. Not a complete waste, but still something of a disappointment.

Up until the end, I was actually convinced that the whole "escaped psycho killer" scenario was being staged by the b+b owners as a sort of "horror weekend" retreat. Unsuspecting guests show up, unknowingly take part in a sort of murder stage play, then it all is revealed as a hoax and the guests gain a new outlook and appreciation for their lives and/or loved ones. Sort of like Saw meets April Fools Day.

It wasn't until the female lead had her finger shot off that I realized this wasn't going to be the case. The filmmakers could have/should have done something very creative and interesting with the ending. They did a fine job of getting the viewer emotionally invested in what was happening. Sadly all this promise and potential was wasted on what amounts to a fourth rate slasher ending.

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Same here. I loved it up till the end. The build up was great, and starting out making us think Skip and Hildie were the crazy ones was done well and with humor. The tension during the night with the serial killer was good. But it just seemed to fall apart at the end.

I know they couldn't see him in the dark, so that way why no one was going down to try & shoot him, plus having to aim well since they only had one bullet. I was confused about when Hildie ran downstairs. Was she trying to get herself killed? I thought she must have taken the shotgun to try & shoot the guy, but then it showed that the Swedish guy still had the rifle. Then, when Wendy and Joseph climbed out, someone screamed to watch out, so I assumed that was Linda, and I thought, "Ok, he just used his last bullet & threw the gun on the ground. Why couldn't Linda see that and tell the Swedish guy and them go outside with the shotgun and shoot the guy, since they don't have to be close to him to shoot him and therefor could get him before he got to the others or to them. Then to have him do what he did accidentally and die from it was ironic, I suppose, but it was a bit odd and didn't feel like it fit.

But yeah, the ending was just sort of anticlimactic. I kept expecting something else to happen when they were going off with the woman in the car. And they never showed Linda and Nils (is that right?) again after they ran out of the house, so I wondered what happened to them. I did get the irony of the butterfly, but still just a disappointing ending. Maybe I'm just too used to there being twists in these kind of movies (not all of which I like, tbh, but some are good).

Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.--Stephen King

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Enjoyed this funny quirky movie, even with its anti-climatic ending. Watched this on Frightpix with no previous info on the film or filmmakers. I think they did a good job of making me care about the characters though they were initially somewhat annoying. The entomologist and Hilda's son were both hilarious to me.

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