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Old 01-05-2007, 08:00 AM   #8
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Name a better horror movie from 2006.
the only other horror movie from 2006 that i saw was An American Haunting, which also sucked. not as bad as The Descent, but it didnt make much sense by the end. if The Exorcism of Emily Rose came out in '06, then i saw that too. it was good. oh yeah, also the Hills Have Eyes remake was pretty good.



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So demons would have been acceptable, but humanoid creatures that exist in caves are too far fetched and lame?
it is pretty far fetched that a race of blind humans could sustain itself living far underground, especially if they lack the physical gifts of most animals, which would allow them to take down six women ...in their own element.

Demons on the other hand, dont require any particular logic. and all i said was that i thought they were gonna be demons - i never said that if they were demons it would have been a better movie.


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They didn't look inept, they looked like humanoids with the same vulnerabilities as any other humanoid. They can't take a pickaxe to the forehead. I'm sure they could have used one singular, invincible creature that could not die until the last 10 minutes of the movie, but there was no need for that. Hordes of dangerous creatures are just as effective as one virtually unkillable creature.
no. they looked fucking inept. they were getting their asses handed to them by a bunch of chicks. they often appeared akward and uncoordinated while scrapping with these women. these so called "perfectly evolved creatures" were being outsmarted and outfought at every turn. they were just fodder. i dont know how you can not see that.

i'm telling you right now that the movie could have been a classic if A: it had more talented actors, and B: it would have shown alot less of the monsters. a lot less. being stuck in a cave is creepy enough, and that can be compounded by the question of there being something frightning lurking.

what they did with this movie was go for the low-brow audience instead of try to make a classic. that or the director didnt have confidence in the story so they showed a slimey creature or some other gore in every other scene.


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The bones statment... I think it's fairly implied that these creatures have to leave the caves in search of food
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okay. again, my question is: if they can barely take down some women trapped in a cave, then how are they gonna take down some deer out in the wild? other than the ability to climb up cave walls... somehow... they apparently lacked any physical prowess above and beyond any human - which doesn't cut it in the wild. do you see what i'm sayin'?


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