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Starts strong, looses credibility, becomes worthless


When the main villain becomes engulfed in flames and the next scene he's standing there with a few burn marks on his head, you lose the audience. The film becomes worthless.

There is no "off" position on the genius switch.

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i liked this movie definitely but i agree that the fact the adult villain guy had mere moderate burns and that he wasn't completely blown apart...that was really stupid. i actually could have done without him in the entire film and had it just focus on the cub scout group and the feral boy. i very much liked and was intrigued with the contact/relationship/friendship(?) between Sam and Kai/feral boy.

also the opening "flash forward" scene ruined the fact that there was an adult killing people (along with Kai). when the girl saw the fake/car lights machine and turns around it was obvious the arm grabbing her belonged to an adult. i just wish they cut the scene before the arm is shown.

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Yeah, that's another thing. Why would anyone go to the enormous trouble of rigging up a pair of headlights to a revolving tree branch just to fool their victim into thinking that a car was coming to rescue them? I'm laughing as I write this.

There is no "off" position on the genius switch.

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Why would anyone go to the enormous trouble of rigging up a pair of headlights to a revolving tree branch just to fool their victim into thinking that a car was coming to rescue them?


Why? Because that's what they do- they set up weird traps in the woods to scare, maim and kill people. It's what the movie is about. I thought that sequence set up a nice tone for the movie. Solid film.

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you didn't understood the question, did you?

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While I do agree with the poacher's running-over-tents-with-children-inside policy, his traps just seemed contrived. The hive and arrow one and the double-tree one would only work if someone stands conveniently in the exact spot that the victims did. They were not practical for fauna hunting or human intruders; they only worked as movie set-pieces. And I am not sure the anti-bullying public service message was meant to encourage devolvement into feral serial killing or dissuade it. Oh, could have done without the dog piƱata part too. Slaughter all the humans of any age, size and sex you want but hands off the animals.

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That dog was an absolute D word.. I was fine with it dying, in the fashion it did.. Wth did the dude throw him in the fire though? That was stupid

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his traps just seemed contrived.

Bingo. We understand why the traps are there, but that's not to say that they were even remotely believable, except maybe the tent trap but even that required some suspension of disbelief. I get that it's a movie but still.

Starts strong, but I'm left disappointed by it overall. 6/10

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Because they set up traps in the woods to mess with people and kill them. Were you not paying attention to what was going on? Put the phone down and watch the movie next time.

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so true.

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He did not have "a few" burn marks. Half of his head was badly burned. Seriously, were you watching at all?

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