You're giving human beings WAY too much credit.
If you came across a video tape like that, in a hotel in the middle of nowhere, your initial impression would not be: Okay, let's go. You'd watch it, process it and then understand the severity of the situation. These characters haven't been in a situation like that so they most likely don't have a frame of reference to follow. You as spectator have "God's view," you're seeing it with scary music and an ominous tone. You know the characters are in danger. They don't. No one that goes to a hotel thinks: Oh, this is a hotel of horrors.
The hotel manager wanted them to find those tapes. He wanted them to go in that suite. They were trapped.
"I wish I wasn't afraid all the time, but I am."
-V for Vendetta
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daughterofolaf
9 years ago
This is just about the best response to this general type of post that I have ever seen. You are 100% correct.
I have to say that it's possible that I would have left as soon as I saw how nasty the room was--in fact, that did happen to me once. I walked into a motel room and it was borderline scary so we left within five minutes. That being said, I do not believe that we would have been murdered no matter how gross it was. I think it was a motel that people dealt serious drugs in on a regular basis which is why it came off as being so scary--the scary feeling I had was legit but not in a crazy murderer kind of way.
However, I still agree with your post as far as their reactions and decisions once they start watching the tapes.
"Why couldn't the monkey arrange this from INSIDE the garbage can?"
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