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Great until...(spoilers)

posted 10 years ago by TheKShow
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The tension created throughout the movie and the mystery revolving around the hill were great.

But when the mother drugs the kids it took me out of the movie. Those kids were some kind of demonic "copies" (as others have come to call them on this board), so how do you drug demons exactly?

Also, when the mother goes upstairs, while the "copies" are still down in the kitchen, she's attacked by another set of "copies." These look more demonic than the kids in the kitchen. So now we're faced with copies of copies? Either that, or the demonic-looking "copies" upstairs were the "Devil" in the film's title. But why not create a different figure to express that? One that Marcia felt standing on her chest, as an example.

Those are my two gripes. Otherwise, a very good watch. 7/10

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[–] StaunchWoman 10 years ago

I agree. I really liked the film but this part took me out of it too.

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[–] masuka-fan 10 years ago

If the doubles are exact physical copies, whatever poison she gave them could have still ruined their bodies.

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[–] askmonroville 10 years ago

Here is how I looked at it:

While the doppelgangers were not her original children, they were still physical beings (thus drugs, bullets, etc would affect them, the same way the lamp affected the serial killer when the lesbian bopped him on the back of the head).

What attacked her were either the reanimated corpses of the original children or the evil spirits that inhabited the physical doppelgangers (who were still physically drugged and immobile). Even then, I believe the reason they could not do much to the mother was because the drugs trapped them inside their physical bodies.

My problem was that she didn't call the police or the Church.. hell, ANYone for outside help. Usually, at the midpoint of that movie you would see Zelda Rubinstein and a group of people showing up at the door (or Max Von Sydow and Jason Miller) to investigate/deal with what is happening. Hell, why didn't she call the cops/anyone while at the hill the moment she found the corpses of the children?

While I liked the movie, it had a few too many problems (such as the lack of acting on behalf of the parents - GUYS! You just lost your children! Cry or something! Get worried! Or the husband randomly spinning around and shooting his wife in the face. Where in the hell did THAT come from?) for me to consider it worthy of a purchase.

[–] p_horan 10 years ago

The father got posessed by the demons because he was weak when he saw it... the man at the convenience store said those demons liked to posses the weak. I think the sister was possessed previously and intentionally led her brother to their death. So, once possessed, they used him to kill the mother. They both come out of the cave at the end as possessed, which is why the dad can't drive.

[–] EmmanKiddo 10 years ago

He killed the wife cause he thought she killed the kids. He thought she was insane, so she showed him the bodies and he panicked and thought she killed them, so he killed her.

[–] Xcalat3 10 years ago

yeah that was a very weak part. but overall a good movie

I give it a 6/10

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