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We've seen this a million times before and usually much better done.


There will be references to other movies that this one resembles and those are valid opinions but this movie on its own merits is pretty worthless. I won't discuss the movie in detail (there are many other threads that do) but the ending is what gets me. Every damn movie that's made today has the typical "non ending" as though they are keeping their options open if this movie made it real big and another one would be in demand, problem is 90% of the time that won't ever happen on a b-movie direct to video release. They should just accept that and give a solid resolution to the ending. Having an open ending for the sake of a movie that will never get made is both pretentious and insulting. Since there is no real ending why did we just sit and watch the whole thing? Pointless.

This was the second movie I watched today, the first being leprechaun origins which I gave the same rating to (a "4") and it also ended with an open ending. If forced to say which movie was better than the other I'd have to flip a coin.

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It isn't just the open/non-ending that bothers me. It's also the fact that the ending wasn't satisfying. Some of my fave horror movies have what could be called a non-ending like The Thing (the 1980 version), Evil Dead (the original), Stir of Echos, etc. However, the endings for those movies were satisfying. I guess it is because the movies themselves were satisfying and the endings seem to fit with the movies.

But with this Torment movie the non-ending doesn't work for the following reasons:
1. It was a generic and cliched movie that wasn't a satisfying experience to watch.
2. The non-ending is too overused that people are tired of it. If non-endings in horror movies didn't seem to be in most horror movie made per year, people probably wouldn't be tired of it.
3. Most of the time the non-ending just seems tacked on. It definitely felt so with this movie.
4. The non-ending in many horror movies are actually pretty dumb. Why would the police officer escort the girl officer without backup? Why would the police officer just casually get out of the car like that without radioing or anything after her windshield was broken? Then she gets killed so easily and then the random bunny head guy is revealed to be "the father" and I thought, "Oh please." There wasn't anything terrifying, suspenseful, or emotionally stirring about that ending at all.

So yeah, I agree that the non-ending doesn't work unless it flows nicely with a movie that is engaging and suspenseful. And if the non-ending isn't the type of ending you see in the majority of horror movies made per year. If you're movie is just going to be generic and run-of-the-mill, then just kill the villains and end it there. That would have been a far more satisfying ending to this movie, which wasn't a satisfying watch anyway.

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With horror movies like this, I doubt the filmmakers know whether their film will be a theatrical release or not. Sure, this is a ripoff of You're Next in a lot of ways but that would perhaps be a reason for a distributor to take a chance on a theatrical release because the budget is low and it wouldn't have to make much to be in the black.

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