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Terrie Since: Apr, 2011
09/09/2018 04:34:59 •••

Completely illogical

For those who haven't seen it, the basic premise is that a typical suburban home is discovered to have a whole bunch of dead bodies in the backyard, and the killer, who lived there previously, left video recordings of his heinous acts. The killer is unknown and still out there, probably setting up shop somewhere new....

Creepy in the moment, but then you stop to think about it and go WTF?!. Part of the basic premise of the movie is that no one knows anything about this guy. They have nothing but a couple of police sketches to go off of. Yet, supposedly, the guy was living in the same house long enough to kill several people and bury them in the backyard and have that location be discovered. And in that whole time, what? He never spoke to his neighbors? Paid a bill? Had a job? The guy isn't living in the middle of nowhere. He's in fucking suburbia!

In the end, any potential creepy factor is buried under the flaws of the premise. If you want to set your movie in reality, you have to follow the rules of reality.

HammerOfJustice Since: Apr, 2013
09/05/2018 00:00:00

Not that I\'ve seen the film, but wouldn\'t police sketches be based on his neighbor\'s impressions of him? Also, he could\'ve just said the occasional \"Hello!\" and worked in a job where talking wasn\'t necessary or needed.

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Terrie Since: Apr, 2011
09/09/2018 00:00:00

\"Not that I\'ve seen the film\" Then don\'t comment on it.

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