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A cop without a flashlight? Ghosts cure cancer!


A cop without a flashlight?! Cut to the chase scene at the end where the only illumination comes from the camera light, I mean come on...without a flashlight what are the cops going to stack their doughnuts on?

Apart from that and one other small but obvious mistake I thought this was a pretty good horror flick with a semi-original take on a possession plot with some cringe worthy scenes.

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The cops were dead by the time the camera was the only light source. Sarah should have taken the lady cops torch but I don't blame her for thinking clearly by that point.

Also the implication is the 'spirit' is now in the girl. If it can do everything it did to Deb I don't see why it couldn't heal to serve its purposes. Unclear on how it still exists with the bones destroyed but maybe they didn't have all the rules right.


If you take life too seriously it stops being funny.

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Also, correct me if I'm wrong, when Deborah goes missing (in the hospital-with the little girl) don't they end up in the morgue? I cannot think of an environment with more neon lighting that a hospital morgue. Nothing explains this silly scene where they go in with flashlights and the camera to look for them...
...only to find them staring at a wall, in full obscurity. I guess it is the evil that keeps the power from getting to that part of the hospital. Oh, but the camera works just well. :->

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No, they end up in an abandoned wing of the hospital. The door was chained but it mysteriously fell away for them.

I'm so far out of your league, if your's were to explode I wouldn't hear it for 3 days.

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When exactly is it mentioned that it is an "abandoned wing"?? Gosh, my attention span must be playing tricks on me.

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It isn't said explicitly (although a nurse might have eluded to that as a place they haven't looked - not sure on that) but the doors to it were chained off and once inside it had that uncleaned look to it.

I'm so far out of your league, if your's were to explode I wouldn't hear it for 3 days.

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Necromancing old thread but it is stated when they go there that the wing is abandoned and has no power.

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Abandoned wing that had no power.

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It looked like Linda didn't have a flashlight when she went inside the abandoned building and on the way there only Mia was shining her camera light. It Bothered me, too.

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lol at your post!

In all seriousness though, I've seen cops sans flashlights.

And ghosts don't cure cancer, even in movies. Demons, however, can....at least in movies. 

Henri made a deal with a demon for immortality by using very specific victims.
And Henri got it.

So Henri, with the demon in tow, went into the girl and got to live life all over again.



I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus.
Didn't he discover America?
Penfold, shush.

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