Flare Gun


Did it annoy anyone else that the wife is running from her assailant but kept shooting the flare gun in the forest??

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With a never ending supply of flares too! Ridiculous!

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I was annoyed that she even had a flare gun. Who carries a flare gun in their car? It's something you have on a boat for emergencies, not in a car.

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Other than on boats, I have only heard of flare guns being for stuff likes hikes in the forest if someone got hurt - it would be in hopes to get a ranger's attention or virtually anyone really.

I did find it very odd they had a flare gun in the car.




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Not only was she shooting a flare gun, but she was screaming the little boy's name. Yet you're trying to hide from a masked murderer.

I don't get why its so hard to write horror films without dumb *beep* like this included in order to move the plot along. Some things are okay. They're just horror film cliches that, as a fan of the genre, you accept as part of the formula. But that was just STUPID. If they wanted the obligatory scene where she turns around and suddenly the killer is right up on her (queue creepy music, struggle ensues) they could have achieved that without all the flare gun shenanigans. Things like that make me wonder. Is it even written that way? Or do they come up with that stuff in the spot during filming? I can't imagine someone thought about that as an idea scenario and then wrote it without a second thought lol.

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*ideal

*beep* phone.

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I wouldn't normally care about this but she was screaming the husband's, not the boy's name. It only matters because there was no reason to be screaming his name. He told her where he was going, making the scene even more ridiculous and yes, shooting the flare and screaming while trying to run from somebody was stupid.

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It looked like poplars but still possible for a misfire to set the forest on fire. I would have saved those flares for the humans.


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I dunno. It probably didn't bother me as much as how the "plot" revolved around psychos who murder bad parents, while the opening 20 minutes of the movie focused on showing what a caring Dad the guy is.

It's like they suddenly decided they needed a plot halfway through filming, and this was all they could think of.

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It was annoying. But I think she kept shooting the flares so she could where she was going.

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-- H. G. Wells

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