This makes more sense right???!!
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klauke — 9 years ago(April 17, 2016 05:08 AM)
just one little point about the 'wrist scratches', this was a pg13 film, so just because the cuts didnt LOOK overly deep due to the rating, you can be sure if anything it was primarily indicative of a mortal wound, rather than the reality the filmmakers werent allowed to show due to the rating. She was really sawing away at 'her fathers fingers', so yeah, it was a reasonable wound.
as for the ghosts, many ghost stories have ghosts that are NOT the same as the person they once were this film seemed to go with the storytelling concept that the people who died were sad, depressed people, so their ghosts are angry and bitter i guess you could say to reflect their fragile emotional state, rather than their intentions or their personality, so i didnt think that was TOO problematic from a storytelling point of view.
aiden was in the film purely as a red herring.. something for the heroine to be afraid of.. he was a narrative device, nothing more pretty lazy story writing, but thats literally his purpose to give doubt, and create a sinister scenario the audience is unsure about. -
SaliceMcD — 9 years ago(May 19, 2016 09:27 AM)
He seemed a crimson red herring to me. Someone so familiar with the forest that he gets lost, and has to follow the river to find his way out of it? Who "stumbles on" the cabin, not having known it existed? I thought Sara's seeing - or "seeing" - the energy bar wrapper (?) on the floor was meant to imply he'd already been inside it - that day, or some other - so would have already tried out the radio, and was just pretending to be taking his first shot at it with Sara there.
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suanniiq — 9 years ago(May 01, 2016 04:15 AM)
There was a lot of potential directions this moive could have went into and agree with what you wroteit makes you wonder after the first or second cut the producers got involved and thought stupid kids who like these kids of movies want jump scaresand gave us this movie. There were too many bad cuts in the show that jump and jarred you out of the moive, as if something was supposed to happen and we never got to see it.
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joodense — 9 years ago(June 20, 2016 09:43 PM)
I was totally expecting the same ending as you. When the other sister pops up I said to my girl "seriously she's just been beep chilling these last 2 days?" - so they came up with an ending I didn't expect but is hard to defend. Def took the movie from a solid 5 (if u watch as much horror as me a solid 5 is still fun) to a meh 3.5
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prasadceleb — 9 years ago(June 25, 2016 08:52 AM)
I think this movie did just ok. I really didn't want to see any supernatural entities considering the setting and history of the forest but a more like 1408 type horror and I guess it did ok. Come to think of it, it's more of a psychological horror rather than a supernatural one. There are many scientific explanations as to why many of the things were happening and the fact that how Sara was acting all weird right from the start gave indications of where it was going. I guess Aiden served the purpose to show how much the forest was messing with Sara, her actions towards him indicated that. Also I do think that Jess coming out randomly was a cliche and that ending jumpscare just ruined the entire setting. Maybe they wanted to stick to the old principle of "the spirits come back angry" but it was all too late to come to that. They should've just shown the forest as it was instead. I'd give this a 7/10.
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Badsharkmoviefan_118 — 9 years ago(November 23, 2016 04:43 PM)
I enjoyed this movie and not sure why everyone hates it but each to there own. If the ending was boring and predictable everyone would of complained about that as well. So no one sees this ending coming so many people hate it? At least it was something a big different from the standard haunted house or cabin in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of stupid teens. We have seen all these types of movies 1000 times. This was different and somewhat original compare to most of the crap made today.
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Badsharkmoviefan_118 — 9 years ago(November 23, 2016 05:01 PM)
I enjoyed this movie and not sure why everyone hates it but each to there own. If the ending was boring and predictable everyone would of complained about that as well. So no one seen this ending coming so many people hated it? At least it was something a bit different from the standard haunted house or cabin in the middle of nowhere with a bunch of stupid teens. We have seen all these types of movies 1000 times. This was different and somewhat original compare to most of the crap made today.
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ChocolateButt — 9 years ago(December 30, 2016 05:51 PM)
I don't know if making Aiden a serial killer would have improved the movie, but it definitely would have saved Sarah as a character. Like, oh, she wasn't just an idiot and the forest wasn't just malevolent. Her instincts were actually telling her something.
"What race are you? If you don't tell me I'll justassume the worst."
