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Nothing supernatural, and completely implausible

posted 8 years ago by tempmail1974
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Whole post is spoilers if you have not seen the film.

This was awful, and semi-incoherent. It felt like the film was being made-up as they went.

Somehow Max is everywhere they choose to stop the car, already waiting for them ... and apparently on foot. Further, he is some sort of ninja, touching people/closing doors/etc. and vanishing from sight within seconds.

How on earth does the pub tie into the story, when the Hotel reservations were made before they ever arrived? He didn't make them at the Pub, because he had full color pages he had printed out himself, waiting in the glove-box when they left.

How does a single man cut down a tree that size in about 90 seconds? And how does he do it without a lot of noise?

There was nothing scary, suspenseful, or tense in this film because every scene felt 100% arbitrary. It looked more like someone trying to film a collection of random scenes they felt would be frightening rather than an actual film.

No suspension of disbelief = No horror.

[–] speculator-1 8 years ago

The plan was to meet the "Hotel" guide at the pub. Hence they followed the landrover.

The killer evidently owned (or at the very least lived on) the land where the "hotel" house was. He must have known the area like the back of his hand.
Since the road goes in a circle, it probably only goes around about an acre or two of land. Very quick to walk around, if you know the shortcuts.

He put the signposts and website up well in advance, and from the massive graveyard of cars (like in "Wrong Turn") they are probably not his first victims.
So he probably had the tree sawn half-way through, to block the only other way out.

The protagonists are no more stupid than any other horror movie protagonists.
Nor is their predicament any more unbelievable.

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[–] tempmail1974 8 years ago

Well, we disagree strongly regarding "any other horror movie protagonists". Outside of bad slasher films (the type that became popular in the 70's & 80's), nobody is this stupid.

The film establishes it is the behavior of the male in the pub that triggers this "punishment". That makes no sense if the hotel reservation were made in advance.

Further, knowing land does not given one the ability to spontaneously appear. Driving in a large circle does not change this. They are out of their vehicle for literally seconds on multiple occasions before the lone stalker is upon them.

These are terrible rationalizations.

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[–] seans_life 8 years ago

The film establishes it is the behavior of the male in the pub that triggers this "punishment". That makes no sense if the hotel reservation were made in advance.

tempmail1974 you are assuming you know what happened inside the pub. Tom might not have done anything to provoke this. It is an unknown.

[–] super16g 8 years ago

If they were driving around in a tight figure eight within the space of a foot ball field, the guy might have had a chance to get there to harass them at every stop, but it would have been very obvious they were driving around in a very tight and confined space going in circles. It was obviously not that easy to figure out early on because the roads were waaaay more stretched out.

In short. There's no way a human could catch up and be on them like that at every turn unless something supernatural is involved.

[–] Trajanc 8 years ago

Word. I just found it to be funny because it was so outlandish.

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[–] Xylko 8 years ago

Agreed, they should've just made it supernatural, at least then all these problems would have a proper explanation. Ok, I could see Max being at maybe one or two places at the right time, but he was at every spot that they stopped? Really? I laughed when Tom took a piss and Max just casually walks off right behind him, I guess Tom went deaf at that moment. It's one of those dumb movies where you have to ignore common sense and be drunk or high to really enjoy.

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