Wrong Turn

[urgeok]

Originally posted by blackknight
Ok my turn.
You can survive a fall from 30-40 feet without breaking bones or ending up a parapalegic.

In 1983 while hiking in the Olympic Mts in WA St. I slipped and fell off a cliff that was estimated to be about 33ft and landed stomach first . Other than some major bruising and a nasty concussion I managed to walk out with my grandfather. People do survive falls unscathed all the time. Its is just the luck of the draw whether you get hurt or not.

well, like someone else said - he also survived an explosion ...

it's not just this movie - its most of them ... mortal slasher manics that cant be killed ...

Halloween's Michael being the prime example .. shot multiple times, stabbed in the eye ... etc ... since then every bloody movie does the same thing .. shoot him, put him down, but he'll always sit up and grab your ankle when you walk past.

if the victims were this hard to kill the maniacs would be nothing more than a mild annoyance.

i know you arent supposed to dwell on these things - you just put your brain in neutral and watch in a state uf numbness - but after a while it starts to grate on me..

[The_Return]

Originally posted by urgeok

it's not just this movie - its most of them ... mortal slasher manics that cant be killed ...

Halloween's Michael being the prime example .. shot multiple times, stabbed in the eye ... etc ... since then every bloody movie does the same thing .. shoot him, put him down, but he'll always sit up and grab your ankle when you walk past.

Who says that your typical slasher is mortal? I think Micheal was inteneded to seem superhuman, it added to some bit of mystery about his character.

[TheOmen]

I don't mind if the maniac killer gets up repeatedly from gun shots, or what have you. That adds to the mystique.

[jenna26]

Originally posted by urgeok
well, like someone else said - he also survived an explosion ...

it's not just this movie - its most of them ... mortal slasher manics that cant be killed ...

Halloween's Michael being the prime example .. shot multiple times, stabbed in the eye ... etc ... since then every bloody movie does the same thing .. shoot him, put him down, but he'll always sit up and grab your ankle when you walk past.

if the victims were this hard to kill the maniacs would be nothing more than a mild annoyance.

i know you arent supposed to dwell on these things - you just put your brain in neutral and watch in a state uf numbness - but after a while it starts to grate on me..

I agree to a point. It never bothered me about Halloween though; Michael Myers is obviously intended to represent an unstoppable evil. He isn't simply a mortal slasher, but something more. And I think it works really well in the first Halloween film. In other movies, it doesn't always seem to be defined in that way.

The Wrong Turn was better than "Saw",but then that would be "no contest "! Too many bad cannibal "zombie films around to find comparisons. I am new,also;have mercy on me too! :cool:

[urgeok]

Originally posted by jenna26
I agree to a point. It never bothered me about Halloween though; Michael Myers is obviously intended to represent an unstoppable evil. He isn't simply a mortal slasher, but something more. And I think it works really well in the first Halloween film. In other movies, it doesn't always seem to be defined in that way.

yeah in halloween it kind of works ... but i never really got the sense that he had supernatural powers ..

i have an ex-boss that i believe is the embodyment of evil bit i'm pretty sure a couple of bullets would stop him ..

at any rate every slasher film since has grabbed the ball and run with it ...

apparently no slasher can be killed until you remove his head from his body ..

(and if they want another sequal they'll find a way around that too)

i guess thats the key isnt it ... its all about the sequal ..

[crazy raplh]

and Jason as well.

[crippler666]

What we fear we destroy, we fear Michael, but we can't destroy him

So it is fear amplified

[Demon Seed]

I loved this movie

[The_Return]

Originally posted by crippler666
What we fear we destroy, we fear Michael, but we can't destroy him

So it is fear amplified

Very well said.