Some secrets just refuse to stay buried...
- The creepy-looking kid playing the banjo – the only thing missing is a Slasher Smile.
- THE RAPE SCENE. That it's been a frequent subject of parody for literally decades now takes absolutely nothing away from just how harrowing and disturbing the sequence is."Kin ye squeal like a piggy?"
- The death of the first hillbilly – Lewis hits him with an arrow straight through the heart, and he still takes almost a full minute to die.
- The two hillbillies in general. They're as predatory and single-minded as serial killers.
- The scenes of the protagonists desperately trying to nagivate the rock-strewn rapids – leading to Lewis' agonizing leg injury – do a good job of conveying just how dangerous whitewater canoeing can be, even without depraved gun-toting backwoodsmen added to the mix.
- The dead hand s-l-o-w-l-y emerging from the lake at the end as both a Catapult Nightmare and an The End... Or Is It? nod. The music doesn't help in the least.
