i'm not european but i am a fan of horror..
however after watching this movie and to the end, all i got from it was that the bad guys were scottish racists who hated the brits and basically re-located them back to where they came from. is that how it is??
i never knew how much scots and brits hated each other..and they killed 1 of the scots. surprised they didn't kill them
either way, it was not a good movie if that was the whole point 🐯
mrduckbear, the ending confused me too. i guess your theory is correct and that the local Scots relocated the couple out of their town.
shareI'm English and I don't get it either. No, that isn't how it is between the Scots and English, unless you count the lunatic fringe. Ever hear of Scots terrorism? That's because there isn't any. The movie has a premiss that is ludicrous and the supposed 'big reveal' at the end is idiotic.
Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled,
Scots, wham Bruce has aften led,
You can do better than this, guys.
Think it's supposed to be the sons of the previous owner who was foreclosed on. Of course they still own the deed, not sure why it didn't end with them disappearing, or staged as murder/suicide or something
shareMovie was OK, but the idea is silly.
For one, do they think the couple will just forget about the 100K or so they spent on the house, and forget about every single one of their belongings, car, etc?
Two, do they think they scared the couple so bad that they won't go to the authorities? And nobody will notice the original owners family is living there even though they lost the place to the bank?
A gun on the nightstand could have made short work of all those pig-head dudes. Glad I live somewhere where it's legal to defend your home and family.
I think original post is spot on and it seems quite obvious(even though ridiculous) but the thing I don't get it is whats the deal with that Arsenal-scarf Sarah finds before the next morning? Why was it in the woods? Why did it matter for Sarah to find it from there? It appeared as it had some meaning.
Also who was the female screamer you can hear every now and then on background?
And why did they relocate them to Manchester which is nowhere near the Scottish border or even the nearest city to it :-/
shareI think original post is spot on and it seems quite obvious(even though ridiculous) but the thing I don't get it is whats the deal with that Arsenal-scarf Sarah finds before the next morning? Why was it in the woods? Why did it matter for Sarah to find it from there? It appeared as it had some meaning.
Also who was the female screamer you can hear every now and then on background?
I thought that too but why did the kid drop his backpack? And why even add that bit when they made it perfectly clear when he came out of the house wearing the pig mask.
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Because this is a horrible movie put together by hacks?
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The screams believe it or not are from foxes. I know what you're thinking 'they sound like a manic old hag screaming at the moon', but I have forest type area behind my house and hear this every night and it freaked me out because I thought it was an old scary hag. But no it comes from effin FOXES! It's unsettling to hear when you know whats making the noise, so it did kinda add to the creepy ambience, but if you dont know what is making the noise then it kinda sounds like 'extra' screams from nowhere.
shareThank you. Only coyotes where I live (New England) -- and they howl like dogs.
shareThe scots and the Brits? Oh dear :(
Scots are Brits
You mean the Scots and English, Brits are British, that's Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
At worst, there's a rivalry and some verbal abuse between them. Maybe an occasional fight but nothing like this.
So once again, Brits are Scots, English, Welsh and Northern Irish, this movie was the Scots and the English
Since you're clearly up for a geography lesson, Northern Ireland is not actually part of Great Britain. That's why the full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
shareI don't think this was a meant to be a 'horror' film, per se, but more of a thriller. It held my interest even during the chase in the woods, where the couple made so many stupid mistakes, yet somehow managed to survive...most likely because killing them wasn't "part of the plan". It seemed much more realistic to me, and they seemed like a couple of regular people who would truly make stupid mistakes in trying to escape, just like most of us would, because we have no training in how to deal with pig mask wearing maniacs.I prefer this type of story, (albeit sort of left unfinished...a final wrap up lacking where it was easy enough to fill in the blanks) to the films like The Strangers, where a terrifying night of torture ends in a final bloodbath, and the killers merrily skip away unscathed. Most posters to the boards of movies of this ilk aren't satisfied unless there's total annihilation and ripped up bodies all over. Nobody EVER wants a 'happy ending'. Well, I do, and even though it wasn't actually happy, at least it wasn't horrific.
How many times have we all seen the movie where the victim doesn't even try to fight back, but if they do, they're totally ineffective, and the antagonist gets up (no matter how ridiculously close to death they may have been) and continues to ravage his targets...over and over and over. I found it satisfying that the wife kept swinging away until she was sure that guy wasn't ever getting up again. Stupid about the box cutter, though.
I think the 'pig men' were a bunch of local bumpkins, some with family ties to the homestead, who were too stupid to consider the consequences of their actions. Of course they'd be found out...the question is, did they scare the couple enough to make them never want to return...which may have been their short sighted goal. You can even see the guy who found the couple in the city square dialing his phone, obviously calling it in to the police.
I would definitely return to the house, but with a newly acquired sense of protecting my home. Security galore, lots of big dogs, shot guns, and an electric fence surrounding my house. Burglar alarms, plenty of light, and phones...land lines and cells. Because that's a lesson I wouldn't need to learn twice.
Nifty little nail biter even if it follows the classic horror movie format chapter and verse --- young couple --- new home --- strange stuff --- scary scenes... But what was the ending all about? Is there supposed to be a moral, a message or even a point?
To me, the message of this movie wasn't about racism/nationism, it was about the anger people have when their properties are foreclosed on due to bad economic times. Here was this large family that still couldn't afford the patriarch's property, which they probably grew up in, and the bank would rather let it sit empty than allow the family to buy it for what they could.
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Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room!"--Pres. Merkin Muffley
I have to say. I was really disappointed when she got surrounded by all the pigs thinking great another cat and mouse movie with a bleak ending. But then i was really disappointed by how stupid the premise turned out in the end.
sharemrduckbear all it was is a reminder of racism still being in this world. If that is what the movie set out to do then it did it's job. The thing is are the people behind this film Scottish and trying to send a message to the Brits? If so this is just so wrong.
shareAs someone else has already pointed out, Scots ARE Brits. Scotland, Wales, England and Northern Ireland are all part of Britain and their inhabitants are British or Brits.
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