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Couldn’t this have all been solved with a fence?


I mean, after the 2nd tourist walked into the “fog” a fence with a sign might have helped.

In multiple languages:
Toxic radiation: keep out.
Warning: poison gas leak.
Keep out: Rabid dogs.

A red velvet rope would have at least been a start. Make an effort people! Even an old well is blocked off so little Timmy doesn’t fall in.

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That would involve logic, and who needs that if you have the power of Jesus on your side.

Happy birthday to the ground!

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There's a Polish joke in there somewhere : )

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Bahahaha

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they didn't have the power of Jesus. there was nothing christian about this movie. those guys were *beep* in the head. and just as evil as the demon they were so scared of, like the pussies they are.

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what?

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But that would be a really short, really boring movie. :)

Bam said the lady.

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yeah, like if the prince in the Little Mermaid just got a scuba suit.

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Four years later this is still hilarious

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A fence might work for me and other people that respect laws but there will always be people that will be curious enough to jump the fence.

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And of course, how do we know that the shrine couldn't destroy the fence with a supernatural force? Why do people have to think and analyze movies like this when the point is just to go along for the ride. No point in rationalizing, it is visceral entertainment.

If there were a fence, then they would of just found a way around, under, through or over it. Its a movie people.

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But it's fun to talk about things like that, well..I enjoy it. My husband thinks I'm crazy when I talk about zombie movies.

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it would have worked to some extent but there will still be nosey people who will find their way in.

the best solution is to send something in and destroy it, like a robot.

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Good idea, maybe controlled by remote control.

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Or maybe ask the military to drop a bomb on it.

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A blind exorcist! :o)

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I agree sharpnicklez!
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If there were a fence, then they would of just found a way around, under, through or over it.

A fence would have required less plot disbelief without affecting the main plot, since only a few would try to trespass. With just a fog as a deterrent, strangers would have had to be killed almost weekly instead of the handful we saw in those coffins. The unusual fog would have been an attractive death trap.

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Lol, sure but then there wouldn't be much of a movie, and it would aide the budget to devise.



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Since when has a fence, sign, locked door, heavy chains, cemented walls, or anything stopped nosy, tenacious, tourists from getting to the evil that gets a horror movie started?

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If a bunch of scary villagers aren't enough to keep people out, what makes you think signs and fences would work?

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Ashes. & a smoke monster.

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"why didn't they just invest in a fence?" were my first words as the credits rolled on The Shrine.

The most plausible answer I could find was cost. An effective fence - one that can resist all but the best prepared and determined intruders long enough that a periodic patrol can detect the attempted intrusion, the sort that surround prisons - costs in the vicinity of US$500/foot. The demonic fog looked to my eye to be about half a mile across, so fencing it would cost about $4,000,000. The village ("Alvania") looked to me to be tiny and literally dirt-poor, so I imagine this would be far beyond their financial means.

More perplexing to me is why the local church - which looks to be some variety of Polish Orthodox, which is a localization of Eastern Orthodox - wouldn't over the assumed centuries they've been guarding the cursed demon fog woods have told the church hierarchy about it, and enlisted its great wealth and resources. Orthodox churches are big on hierarchy, with priests of even tiny parishes reporting to their superiors, their superiors to their superiors, ad so on - it's what keeps them orthodox.

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...fencing it would cost about $4,000,000. ...so I imagine this would be far beyond their financial means.

Wouldn't the country of Poland be willing to foot the bill to help discourage such a death trap?

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