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Wow, this was just awful AND inconsistent

posted 8 years ago by mason25
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Wow, talk about continuity errors. One moment Rita is tied up in a room, after being held captive by someone.. it didn't say who, and the room she escapes from IS IN THE FKN CABIN WITH ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!... UH WHAT?? After escaping, she just goes traipsing through the woods again( not sure why since she's already AT the fkn cabin) WITH HER EARBUDS IN..... I sure wouldn't want to hear the kidnapper coming to get me again huh.......

So Zack is choking the life out of Rita's grand father in the downstairs bedroom, after leaving him upstairs with a knife in his back, and then he turns his back on him for a minute, and suddenly hes BACK UPSTAIRS.. WTF

All in all, this movie went nowhere, did nothing, and didn't do any of that very well. the camerawork wasn't all bad, maybe in the future they can do wedding photography or something

[–] Taravilyaion 8 years ago

"One moment Rita is tied up in a room, after being held captive by someone.. it didn't say who, and the room she escapes from IS IN THE FKN CABIN WITH ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!"

No she wasn't..
She was supposed to be in the cabin of the caretaker Earl Ray Warren (aka her grandfather)..
But apparently the filmcrew couldn't arrange a second cabin..

"After escaping, she just goes traipsing through the woods again"

No she doesn't..
It's only showing what happened to her before.
She walked in seeing Zach choking her grandfather, she got knocked out with the gun by Zach and tied up at first..
After she escaped he killed her and put her in the lodge's basement where Teddy found her..

Got some flaws too..

• Dale & Teddy walk into Earl Ray Warren's cabin and see blood on the floor and the bedroom door is locked, but they don't break the door in.
Just because 'it's someone else's place'.. apparently there's no need to be worried or to call the police after that find either..

• Rita is tied up but manages to escape herself. Not only from the ropes, but also from the room..
You'd think that someone who used to be a patient in a mental asylum knows how to tie up and gag her better than that.

• Lira walks into the dark basement with only the light from a lighter shouting if anyone's there.
If there would be anyone from the group, why the hell would they keep their mouth shut? Yet she keeps going in deeper and deeper..
For all we know, there could have been a dangerous hungry bear..

Teddy does exactly the same thing later..

• Megan takes the box with the tapes and tape-recorder to her bedroom where she's going to listen to the tapes with her earphones in, while she knows that they're dealing with a possible sex-offender.. really, really smart move..

• After Teddy 'fell' of the stairs (the old man didn't even hit him yet) Zach gets into a conversation with the old man..
The ghost-boy appears and Zach strokes his hair.. really..?

I probably forgot some, but this movie was so "The Asylum" terrible that I don't want to remember all the failures..

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