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I think everybody is being undeservedly harsh on this movie.
If it were some unheard of little indy 'horror' movie .. by an unheard of director .. that I just picked up on a whim at the video store ... I would have been really impressed.
Yeah, it didn't live up to the expectations set by his previous work .. but it's still far better than most of the rubbish on the shelves. So what if there's no mindbending twists? Most movies follow such a bland form that I'm grateful whenever one does anything a little different.
And, since this is the spoiler thread, I thought the scene where the (supposed) 'real monster' finds her in the woods was one of the creepiest/scariest scenes in recent memory. I can't say why.. it just was for me, at the time, while I was sitting there.
And the whole audience gasped when the retard withdrew the knife from Joaquin Phoenix's gut.
It was just so out-of-the-ordinary to remove the main character mid-movie ... with no lead-up. .. you're waiting for the movie to get to the point where he finally ventures off into the woods to face <whatever> and then BAM! - he's knocked out of the whole story. I think that's a fucking brilliant thing to do.
- it may not be witty, but it's ballsy.
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