Unintentionally Funny

!!! Warning, this post is full of spoilers, I'd put them all in a 'spoiler' tag but the whole message would be blacked out. !!!


OP I totally agree. Everything about this movie was very nicely made except the most important part, the plot. That absolutely sucked. So badly I could barely watch it. It was very predictable, like an even less scary rehash of 'children of the corn'.

Ethan Hawke was excellent, all the actors did a good job. Except the kids. The kids were so 'not at all scary' they should have been removed from the movie and been totally reworked. For instance, what if they didn't have any lower legs or hands, the legs/arms just gradually turn into mist, so they sorta resemble the stereotypical 'ghost', but with a modern edge. Also it would have been cool if they had a 'super 8' effect applied to only the kids when they're in the scene, so they seem to be displayed at a different frame rate, with dust/scratchs/ticks/pops/etc.

I think what would have made the kids scarier is if they ditched the 'ssssh' pose, which was lame looking, and instead they had really big, cheerful smiles on, sweet and innocent looking, except they're covered in blood and playing with the dead bodies of their family.

I wasn't bothered by the 'tropical animals'... They seemed out of place but a little bit like they were supposed to be. Maybe it would have been better if he keeps finding these creatures in the house(s), in scary places, like the snake crawls out of his pillowcase one night when he lays down to go to sleep. Or he's in the shower, everythings normal, he closes his eyes to rinse out shampoo, and when he opens them again, he's covered in scorpions, the bath tub is full of them, they're everywhere.

The suggestion below is a kinda graphic so i'm wrapping it in a 'spoiler' tag.

Ethan Hawke's character could be giving his wife oral sex, and one of the coral snakes could crawl out of her vagina and into his mouth.

Interesting! But pardon me, what tropical animals were walking around, and what scene? I do remember the dog.

If films had to be 100% logical, believable, true, etc, they'd all be terrible and no one would watch them. We get it, you didn't like the film, we get it... there's no reason to point out the obvious plot holes other than to try and make yourself seem smarter.

Most of what makes horror films scary and creepy is the illogical; things that are out of place and don't make sense. People fear what they don't understand and things that don't make sense.

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