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* Movie couldn't decide whether it was a war mission movie or a horror movie. Failed at horror. * Often lacked a sense of showing where soldiers were located during their mission. Too many "nick-of-time" saves with heroes showing up silently from nowhere. * Didn't like the "hero" whose disobedience to command (and mission) caused most of their problems in the movie. * Didn't like the badass farm girl who seemed better trained with weaponry and fighting than the soldiers. * Child was used mostly to cause trouble for the soldiers' mission. <blockquote>the "zombies" are not actually zombies, they're live people with some substance to made them strong and fast</blockquote>The zombies at the end were in morgue drawers, resuscitated from the dead. The movie establishes that the mutant has been around for 40 years, meaning she was born no later than 1982 (in 2022). Not enough time for an incest birth. Inbreeding doesn't make sense for the short timeline given. It was due to sloppy writing. * The homeless guy told us that the mutant woman had been living in the house for 40 years. * The entire purpose of the 1980's flashback was to show when Frank started his kidnapping spree. * No other woman could have been the mother of the mutant except someone who was kidnapped around the time Frank started the kidnapping spree in the 1980's. * There could be no incest involved if the mutant's mom was a random kidnapped woman. <blockquote>This movie would never play in American theaters!</blockquote>The US allows more freedom of expression in movies than any country in the world. Any reluctance to show child deaths has more to do with box-office impact than censorship. Plenty of movies where children have been killed have been shown in American theaters. * Dawn of the Dead (1978) * Mimic (1997) * High Tension (2003) * The Mist (2007) * Martyrs (2008) * The Woman in Black (2012) <blockquote>Barbara Bouchet's character.... Do you think she is a paedophile, or just a bored and self-satisfied upper class gal?</blockquote>Even though she chose not to have physical sex with the minor, under USA law there is no doubt that she's a pedophile who has broken the law. <blockquote>I think the reason is because there are no consequences for a teenage boy if he engages in that type of activity</blockquote>Under USA law, the boy would be legally liable for child support until his offspring turns 18. There's also the issue of distraction. A boy in a sexual relationship or occupied by sexual obsession is less likely to finish high school or go on to college. And he's more likely to face a career of menial jobs, all because of early sexual molestation. Just because something feels good <i>to</i> you, doesn't mean that it's good <i>for</i> you. What is your problem? Justin never mentioned ANYTHING about the house not supposing to be rented for a month's duration. The only time reference regarding the rental was that it hadn't been rented for two weeks when he got there. <blockquote>You're right, I guess AJ was over powered by her but Keith fought harder, enraging the freak.</blockquote>That doesn't explain why Keith tried so hard to convince Tess to go back with him into the tunnel to face more of the danger he just encountered. Keith also appeared uninjured and only said that something bit him. Doesn't sound like a hard fight. <blockquote>I'm sure it was just a draft in the house lol</blockquote> * If a simple draft could lock people into the basement, why wasn't the door fixed? After all, the basement contained laundry facilities and all the toilet paper for the house, so everyone was at risk. * Why wouldn't previous renters have complained? * And why was the owner so quick to prevent the door from shutting on him? Did he already know it would lock him out? <blockquote>a basement should not have a lock on the outside, let alone never be able to be unlocked. its designed to keep people in.</blockquote>I don't understand how the mutant lady was able to open and close the basement door at will, when it seemed to lock everyone else in. <blockquote>You can buy a house in Detroit for around 60k and there’s hundreds of them on the market.</blockquote>On the HGTV rehab show, <i>Bargain Block</i>, the rehabbers buy derelict Detroit homes for $1k to $20k, and flip them for $80k to $150k. But they make make extensive improvements to the homes and do all the rehab themselves. * AirBnB located in dystopian ghetto section of Detroit gets bookings by arts professionals, and is owned by a Hollywood celebrity. * Medical convention can completely deplete Detroit of hotel rooms. * A woman will share an AirBnB with a strange man if he shows her his ID. * Make sure to store all toilet paper in the basement and not leave any extra rolls in the bathroom. And don't tell renters that the toilet paper is in the basement. * No one fixes a basement door that locks you (and apparently other renters) into the basement, but monster lady can unlock that same door every night. * Secret tunnel door allows people outside the tunnel to unlock it, when only those inside the tunnel need to use that door. * Homeless man knows everything about the tunnel danger but tells no one until the plot requires it. * Detroit can run out of police. Detroit police won't investigate a suspected killer if no one answers the door. * A single man can excavate a complex tunnel system under several Detroit homes without anyone noticing. * A 40 year old incest mutation kid can be born from parents who aren't even related. * The homes on your street will lose their expansive front lawns sometime between the 1980's and 2022, and all homes on that block will be shifted closer to the street. * If something in a dark tunnel bites you, be sure to insist on going deeper into that tunnel instead of escaping. * A mutant can hunt people and food on Detroit streets at night without anyone noticing. * A young woman can go missing for two weeks and nobody will look for her. Apparently Tess didn't tell anyone back home where she was staying in Detroit. * Save yourself by predicting that a monster will choose to chase gravity instead of going after you for killing her baby. <blockquote>Justin said nobody was supposed to rent the place for over a month.</blockquote>Justin never said that. The only reference we get to Justin asking about his rental vacancy was when he was on the phone with the AirBnB rental management agent and she told him that the house hadn't been rented out "in a couple of weeks." So Tess had been held captive in the tunnel for about that long when Justin arrived. <blockquote>incest would usually create weak deformed offspring not some super human who could even survive a fall from 20 meters or something like that?</blockquote>The math doesn't support her being an incest kid. The homeless guy said the mutant woman had been there for 40 years. But since everything started in the 1980's, her mom would have to have been one of the unrelated kidnapped women. The movie was very poorly written. <blockquote>After all, the man was very old, he must have had several generations of offspring (and offspring with that offspring) by the time of discovery.</blockquote>The movie devoted an entire flashback to show us that the man was a loner who started his kidnappings in the 1980's. There's no evidence that anyone else was involved at the start. Sure, he eventually started a family, but apparently only one child survived or everybody else escaped or was murdered. In any case, by 2022 he had only one accomplice. <blockquote>What I didn't understand, however, was who placed the Airbnb ads</blockquote>The ads were placed by the real estate management company he hired to take care of all aspects of keeping his property rented. The bomb shelters described in that link were just ordinary basements with disaster preparations added. They still weren't common. And they were nothing like the labyrinthine tunnels depicted in the movie. <blockquote>The homeless man explains that she was the product of several lines of inbreeding. The man was having kids with the women, then having kids with those kids...</blockquote>Frank's serial killing and kidnapping started in the 1980's. There wasn't enough time for several generations of inbreeding to produce that woman. <blockquote>They were used as a food source.</blockquote>So what happened to the bones? They're the most persistent component of the human body and are generally not easy to eat. <blockquote>There wasn’t a hotel available</blockquote>She gave up after calling only one hotel. Medical convention attendees wouldn't be renting hotel space in dystopian Detroit ghetto neighborhoods. Her hotel situation was contrivance created by uninspired writing.