Biggest waste of my time
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jason_parallel — 16 years ago(October 29, 2009 08:45 PM)
Err, there's something called "suspension of disbelief", and it comes in really handy for most horror movies. You should try engaging it the next time you decide to watch a fictional film.
Cripes, I'm surprised you didn't bitch about the so-called zombie cop -
Voland-4 — 16 years ago(November 02, 2009 09:18 PM)
Nah, he's right. The movie was absolute crap. One suspends their disbelief for, say, supernatural elements in horror movies - not to watch a bunch of lamblike morons get slaughtered by some crazed bitch that could've been neutralized if the cops had half a brain and a testicle among them. Movies with excessive gore and torture need a payoff. A grand metaphysical Idea, or a cool plot twist, or quirky characters - something. This was just pointlessly unpleasant. I don't get how it's raved about so much - there's literally nothing here behind the blood and violence.
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and_scene — 16 years ago(November 09, 2009 10:24 AM)
I don't get how it's raved about so much - there's literally nothing here behind the blood and violence.
Yeah, kind of like the rest of the horror genre, with only a few exceptions. This one gets raved about because it's bold, unflinching, and contrary to your opinion, people think it's quite terrifying.
Walking into a horror movie expecting something deep, profound, and realistic just doesn't make sense. If it doesn't suit you, maybe horror isn't your genre. -
banditaxis06 — 16 years ago(November 16, 2009 03:28 PM)
seriously this reply is such BS!
Obviously most horror movies aren't supposed to be deep and profound, but this movie was just about the blood and gore. Yeah it's an unsettling movie, but it was to completely exploit the use of blood and guts and violence as much as possible. Whoopty-doo.
If i want something like that, i'll go watch Cannibal Holocaust.
Look, what the people who don't really understand this movie are trying to say is this: The movie is quite pointless, there are no revelations, no nothing. It's devoid of any reality too.
Look, i don't have problems with Zombies/Ghosts. Paranormal Activity for example, is a ghost movie. I suspended my disbelief in ghosts for the movie and enjoyed it, because it's a realistic portrayal of what would happen if there were a ghost.
Unlike in this movie where there are things that just don't make sense. I'm not going to rattle them off here, but i'm about to make a topic that's going to ask fans of the movie to explain some things to me, and if you can prove those points of the movie were realistic, well, i'll say this movie was good. As of now. 5/10.
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banditaxis06 — 16 years ago(January 13, 2010 11:35 PM)
Teeheehee. NO.
Horror movies are my number one genre. I never said the blood and guts were something i (or others) couldn't handle. Merely stating that this was just a gorefest for gorehounds.
Go enjoy wacking it to severed limbs, live up to your name. -
Dragon_Eye_Morrison — 16 years ago(November 02, 2009 09:45 PM)
This kind of movie exists just to please "gore hounds" and other assorted movie fans looking for pointless violence. Hey, i enjoy a good stylish killing on my movies like anybody else, but as someone already said violence without a good cause and effect can be quite pointless, and in the case a movie so desperate to show how "edgy" it can be (like this one) it can be quite annoying.
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Strazdamonas — 16 years ago(December 30, 2009 01:51 PM)
Indeed you are a poor person, if you think this is all horro genre has to offer you havent been beyond the hyped crap. There are many horror movies which has great performance, stories, characters. Its just not movies like this.
"Common sense is not so common."
- Voltaire
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LooyCyphr — 16 years ago(January 22, 2010 12:41 AM)
You're simply wrong to pidgeonhole what 'kinda makes a horror genre'.
Jacobb's Ladder
The Omen
The Thing
and many many more show that horror CAN offer a BIT more than what you tag with horror. It's not all Friday the 13th, slashing and blood, and I don't even consider those "new french horror films" as really horror. Rather ultra-voilant psycho thrillers. My opinion.
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casdan-1 — 16 years ago(December 01, 2009 04:26 AM)
sorry, but this movie is NOT pointless!!!
the point/twist of the film in fact is: the mother try to protect her baby, but she can not protect her baby! she try to say to the unborn baby: everything will be good, but nothing will be good in this whole crazy world!
the partens take the decision:
WE WANT A BABY! And WE WILL BE HAPPY for the rest of our beautiful life!!! its normal for people to think positiv and to have some hopes and dreams!
AND this is the POINT and the FAILURE in peoples mind!
nothing will be good. the baby will be born in a bloody and crazy world! no protection and no future for the baby! this is the real life - exaggerated to tell.
and this is the point of the film. end.
(sorry for my bad english, i hope you understand my statement)
problems of the movie: - police idiots - the mother and her decisions in ALL situations -
for me: 7/10 -
scyza — 16 years ago(December 02, 2009 05:42 AM)
Actually I don't think that is the point of the film. Sarah is obviously not really happy about her pregnancy and is not too fond of the aspect of having a baby. She probably was, before her boyfriend / fiancee died in the car accident. But, at the time she is being terrorized in her house, the other woman, the crazy one, seems even more protective of the baby than the mother herself does. Sarah is bent on her own survival rather than that of her child. She even threatened the baby's life at one point in order to survive.
Also, I do not at all agree with your nihilistic point of view about reality. It is perfectly possible to have a baby and live with your family and be completely satisfied and happy with it. I'll even go so far and say that for most of us fortunate people, who have nothing better to do but browse imdb and write stuff on forums, the possibility of a happy, peaceful life is very likely and can easily be achieved.
I don't know where you're from, but where I live children can be protected from from a lot of bad things and not only the parents but also the state does what can be done to ensure every child has the prospect of a good life and future so I honestly can't see how this "no protection, no future" view applies to real life in industrialized countries (which France belonged to last time I checked :P) -
Willtur — 16 years ago(January 20, 2010 12:48 PM)
(Spoiler)
I thought it was a good flick. I am a fan more of suspense(funny games) than gore
when it comes to horror but I thought this one had a nice development. The point of her being crazy for babies and trying for so long to only have it ripped away was the last straw for her. I think it had some really powerful scenes that were more suspense then over the top gore.
The knock on the door and the dialog right after it
the knocking on the windows and the camera flashing shown from the outside
the awakening with her in the room
the scene with the cop or whomever(been a while) where he thinks shes the mother
These hit right on the money for me during the viewing, I dont think many horror fans get scared much but you can appreciate the creepiness and the way the story unfolds. I seen it with little knowledge of it so I didnt get the overhype that may have happened. Most people when hyped about a movie seem to be alot more judging of it (me included). I force myself to think every movie is gonna be horrible that way I dont have any expectations now and end up enjoying them more, Like Sherlock Holmes as of late. -
SpiritedAway86 — 14 years ago(May 21, 2011 06:58 PM)
So what if Sarah is more protective of herself than her unborn baby! Sorry but the mother's life comes before some unborn fetus's life and Sarah thought that maybe if she threatened to harm the baby or kill it that the crazy bitch would leave her alone, wouldnt work obviously, but I think she was so desperate for her life at that point she thought maybe it would work. I think she thought that if she killed the fetus inside her that maybe the bitch would have no reason to kill her or she was using it as a way to control the woman. I did feel a lot of sympathy for Sarah, she just lost her husband and was depressed.
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avia2 — 13 years ago(May 15, 2012 08:19 AM)
The problem isn't violence itself. It's the combination of gore with a stupid storyline.
Gore works well in films like
Saw
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tupacin2003 — 13 years ago(September 17, 2012 07:21 AM)
im glad im not the only one who thinks this.. how the hell do foreign films keep getting these high ratings? Hostel which actually has a story behind it and has this type of gore has a lower rating. I think that we Americans are harder judges on our own films, Europeans think that their films are all masterpieces and we have idiot americans that think that its a good thing when a movie confuses you such as this film. its just puzzling because of the points you pointed out