So who was the guy living underground with his feral son? Why was he a trap making genius? What was his motives for killing? I like things unanswered sometimes and ambiguous in films but this just felt like it was unfinished...
shareThe guy was probably one of the bus makers. From what I remember the fat cop said many people went into the forest and killed themselves after the bus factory in town closed down. Apparently the big guy probably lost it and started to kill tourists or anyone from town that went into his territory. People go crazy when they are fired all the time and go 'postal' and come back to kill managers and workers so its really not that farfetched as it sounds. Come to think of it, I think the underground was made from cut up buses actually. And we dont know if that was his son or a kid he took in after killing his family and raised him like that.
shareThanks :) the hideout being made from bus parts etc would make sense and yes we only assume its his son, but what about the ingenious traps that are electronically linked to a terminal in the hideaway? I feel there should have been more development in this part of the film - i really enjoyed the first half but felt it got a bit muddled after.....
shareLike I said in another post, I think it was made with crowd funding money so im sure they didnt have a huge budget. I wish they went into the killers traps, location, and motives more but Im sure they didnt have the money or the time to do so. I just took it for what it is, a fun little horror film with kids in the woods.
shareYeah, I'm not being critical to be an *beep* I was just really enjoying it then I was like huh? halfway through, It's a shame, could have been really good! :)
shareYeah i thought the same thing... I followed the movie from the time they said they were going to make it and was really happy when it came out but now i just have a 'meh...' feeling about it. The end of the movie feels like it either needs a sequel or a prequel. I have so many questions, why is the boy (sam) so weird, why is the other boy so 'brainwashed', why does the guy kill and make those traps, what happend with the 2 boys that made the hole in the truck?
It's not a bad movie it just needs a bit more backstory.
The traps really took me out of it. They were extremely outlandish, and involved entirely too much chance to work. Everyone had to stand or lay in exactly the right place and not move an inch for the traps to go off without a hitch. And they always did exactly the right things to help the traps function at their best. The elaborate nature of the whole setup, home base included along with the blinking lights and other nonsense, was difficult to accept. While parts of this film felt like a throwback to the slashers of the 80s, this felt more like something from a Wrong Turn/SAW sequel. I would have liked some more actual slashing, rather than just the improbable stalk-and-trapping that went on.
Also, why was the man invincible? He could not have cared less when Kris stabbed him with that knife, and it didn't impede his mobility at all (nor did the wound seem to bleed or bother him). Then he gets blown up and sits inside a burning truck for quite some time, roasting. That doesn't phase him either, apparently causing him no pain or discomfort despite his hideously severe burns. I couldn't help but think he's going to die soon after the events of the film regardless of what happens because all of his wounds are going to become infected. Are we just supposed to guess that he, like all other horror villains, happens to have been born without the ability to feel pain? I can't see any other explanation from within the film, other than "he's super tough". Unless losing his job just made him so angry that, in addition to planning on ruthlessly murdering and torturing anyone he can get his hands on in the most needlessly elaborate way, he just decided that he would no longer respond to injuries.
Thank you! Well said. While I don't agree on the full on slasher thing, because it's overdone, I agree with everything else you said. I was watching the flick thinking how outlandish the traps were. Not only for the fact that the person needed to be in an exact spot, but that some of them noticed they triggered some sort of trap and stood there waiting to see what's going to happen! Were is the human sense of flight for preservation and safety? If I tripped a trip line in the forest and a Rube Goldberg cartoon trap starts going off I would not *beep* stand there!
The fake car lights in the woods one was so dumb. First of all it could have only worked if the person who tripped it was panicked and being chased like in the movie. If Kia and killer Dad were in their hideout and someone tripped it what would of happened? The person would have investigated mysterious cars that magically appear in the forest? If they saw what is really was would they stand there waiting near the obviously spiked death tree to wait for the traps owner to come and impale them?
What about the tree trap. A trap with a maybe foot wide tree would fall perfectly onto the target who clearly fell forward from tripping. The killer must have been a physicist and perfect spatial thinker to prejudge the distance someone would fall on account of guessing the theoretical targets angle of approach, mph, weight, and height. Lol give me a break.
The invincible man was just *beep* ridiculous. The whole truck cabin blew up.The explosion blew the roof off with him inside and he's mildly burned on one side of his body after roasting in the truck? I guess he doesnt breath so he was safe from the smoke inhalation too.
I truly don't get the ending either. What was the purpose of pursuing and rescuing the girl and then suddenly trying to kill her? It took 30 seconds of coaxing from a psycho that was trying to kill you to change you from a hero to a murder?
The movie had potential. Tons in fact, but it went downhill really fast. The people who got killed was a refreshing take with the average horror ordeal survivors dying.
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