Fried Man said:
how the fuck can a horror movie have unnecessary violence? funniest thing ive heard in a while.
cuz not all horror is violence, duh. truly horrific things dont have to be violent.
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I have to admit the thought of that situation, and the body of the guy before him who actually had suffered such a terrible fate (not to mention the poor dog kept hungry in that small cage) made me a little queasy. But like I said, I was expecting to have to watch this guy get eaten alive, I was suprised when he escaped. And this was by far the WORST thing in the movie...I was ready for something much more.
WHY NOT KILL THE BASTARD???
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agree. fuck this was horrible to realize happening. between the dog and the half-eaten man, i was angry and scared. that cave-environment they were in was just a trip. the outback looks like a nightmare, all nice and low-growing on the surface (no place to hide!), and deadly and cavey a few feet below.
i think they didnt kill becuz they were unsure of what could happen to them--they were still thinking there was indeed a way out, and that they were gonna find help, and they don't want to be completely responsible for the fate of this man. They just wan out. after studying domestic violence, im not surprised anymore at how afraid people, especially women, are of killing a person even in a situation as fatal as that. they new nothing of their surroundings or how close help was or why this man decided to treat them this way. Their inability to understand why he changed on them, his split personality, made them more afraid of him, but still dependent on him in one way or another, because they still had some kind of hope that something in him could help them.
To me that expained why they actually went back and tried to use more of his resources (find a car) to leave the place, rather than running away from his site altogether. if anything was really stupid, that action was. I think i understand why they would do that tho.
The guy made the smartest move by waking up and getting out of there w/o looking back once.
how do you know what is right to do when you have nothing to base what's right on? when you react in a panic, you try not to go to what you think at the time would be seen as extreme to others, not yourself. it's so weird how self-conscious we can get about protecting ourselves even in our most final hours.
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How did he know she would get in THAT car? And why didnt she hear him coming, they are out in the middle of nowhere, in silence..she didnt hear his truck pull up? T
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didn't you realize by now that this guy is an expert in outback living? he's like the martha stewart of outback living, especially with the way he acts like he takes care of people and sends them on their way. he knows everything there is to know out there and by that time SHE even knows this becuz she saw all the people he's killed through the videos.
this dude could have cameras, sensors, sonar, any type of detection device all over his camp site or on his person.
as for the car, he probably didn't know, he just guessed. which doesn't matter anyway, becuz any car she'd get in he'd kill her before she drove out. he still would've gotten to have done what he wanted to do. i doubt he parked close enuf for her to hear him. he saw that she took his set of keys when he got back to his car, and got to the garage before she did.
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I also didnt really understand how the police could search everywhere in that area and not find the dudes hideout, but thats the way it goes I guess....
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i did, becuz the man again expressed his expertise early on in the show by saying there is so much unchartered land that people couldn't even find their way out that lived out there and other things i wish i could remember, he talked so fast.....that was the key part to the film. could someone quote this section of script where he talks about this? it was so informative.