Terrible writing and annoying music
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stu_157 — 13 years ago(October 18, 2012 08:19 PM)
That's a bit sad.
Just watched a stream of this with a dozen or so others and come the ending it was universally despised.
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ireallylikecamilacabello — 13 years ago(November 24, 2012 04:46 PM)
The repetition of the theme song was probably intended to carry some emotional theme, but it ended up being incredibly annoying. And the soundtrack did not emphasise the shock moments at all, so they mostly failed horribly.
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poyzun — 12 years ago(February 08, 2014 06:19 PM)
I can't bring myself to call that background racket "music"! It almost ruined the whole movie for me, I'm hard of hearing, but that racket was just so annoying! Other than that, I thought it was a pretty decent film, something a little different for a change.
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Random Terrain — 13 years ago(February 19, 2013 05:28 PM)
What music? It sounds like somebody fell asleep while playing the organ and their nose was pressing down a single key through most of the movie as they drooled all over they keyboard.
Another low budget piece of crud.
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nashknight-1 — 12 years ago(July 16, 2013 05:51 AM)
If your definition of a good movie is a fast paced Hollywood cliche-fest then no, this isn't a film for you.
But if you like a Lovecraftianesuqe drama/horror with slow pace and requirement for a little after thought, you're in luck. -
desertray40 — 12 years ago(August 06, 2013 08:47 PM)
Finally I have found a thread that I can relate to about this movie. When I first watched it last night maybe I was just a little sleepy but I kept dozing off for most of the second half of the movie.
I woke up to re-watch the second half over to catch up on the parts that I missed and tried to make some sense out of the film.
It actually kept me entertained throughout the whole film, once I was able to ignore the music. I was really hoping for some spectacular breakthrough at the end to understand more clearly about what or whom was keeping these people kidnapped and trading them back and forth.
Then I come to here to the board and start reading peoples take on the movie.
I surely don't buy all of this metaphysical metaphor hogwash that some are making it out to be. Okay, maybe some of it may be true.
Daniel was in fact missing for seven years and mysteriously returned wearing the same clothes, with his wallet still in his pocket as it was when he first disappeared. The sisters knew it, the police saw it. It was REAL!
Now of course I do realized the fact that at least one of the sisters was doing some hallucinogenic drugs and that I needed to interpret which segments of what they saw were real and which segments weren't. I know that the warping ceiling in the girls home was most definitely the result the drugs, but something really weird was going on underground that we never really learned about, and there were people missing left and right.
I would be fine with the ending of the movie if it was meant to be continued with a future sequel, but I highly doubt that would happen. -
onpegasus — 11 years ago(April 07, 2014 09:48 AM)
Agreed. Really really bad writing; annoying background noise (droning tones are not music; sounded more like machinery in a factory) that drowned out dialogue in several scenes.
This is the kind of awful writing that makes me shout at the screen. During the last 15 or so minutes of the film I was shouting at the detectives:
GO AND LOOK IN THE TUNNEL, IDIOTS!!!!
The non-pregnant sister tells the detectives about the tunnel, and leaves them printouts from the internet reports on the 100 years of missing people, and yet the most that the two idiot detectives do about it is to sit in their office and trade "scenarios" on what might have happened.
The body of a man who was missing for years is found at the entrance to the tunnel, yet the police never go inside it to investigate.
At the very end, when one detective is near the entrance to the tunnel, posting a Missing flyer, and sees a woman standing at the entrance to the tunnel even THEN he doesn't go into the tunnel to investigate.
Yes, one sister was on drugs, and may have hallucinated.
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Ilikecomedyhorror — 12 years ago(August 10, 2013 07:57 PM)
The music kind of reminded me of the music in Twin Peaks well, not exactly. i think the music tried to give the same vibe that the music in Twin Peaks gave..
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dgaart — 10 years ago(February 10, 2016 12:15 AM)
I lost the remote for my stereo and couldn't turn down the bassevery time the loud droning would come on my floor would rattle and I couldn't hear anything anyone was saying. Had to unplug my subwoofer to continue watching. That aside, I enjoyed the movie overall, despite some scenes where the writing fell shortusually involving the cops. I thought the movie was creepy and I liked the overall tone. I also liked the idea of some insectoid creature who (trollishly) abducts people from under a bridge and makes unfair trades. I don't need to know all of the answers, but I would have liked this aspect of the film focused on a little bit more. Even by the end it wasn't clear why it even gave anything in return, or if it needed to give things in return to take people/things. Did they ever allude to anything being given to the pregnant sister back when her husband was taken? And why did the sister even want to trade herself at the end knowing that when Daniel returned it was only temporary anyway. There doesn't seem to be any rules for its trading so I'm not even sure you can say "well the trade must be of equal value (another human) to make it fair" Or did she not want to trade and the thing just made a trade anyway? I'd think if it can just trade with any unwilling person it'd have just snatched her up when she was jogging through earlier.
That aside, I was generally okay with not knowing details, and thought the end "trade" for the fetus was wicked and cruel, but fitting. However, I found it a little too absurd that the cops wouldn't investigate the tunnel at the end. As the last poster mentioned, they saw all the articles about the tunnel/underground disappearances, heard the girl's story about Daniel being taken there, found a body outside of there, and at the end the cop even sees a lady there and still doesn't go there. The level of incompetence by the cops wasn't even remotely believable and almost felt like just lazy writing. The movie would have been a lot better if the cops weren't conveniently complete morons, it really only serves to piss off and frustrate the viewer. Even if they just went in the tunnel, saw the fetus there and then got taken by the creature for taking the fetusor something. I just hate when writers rely on dumb characters to do dumb things out of convenience.
I still think this was a good movie, but it could have easily been great and just barely missed the mark.