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Originally Posted by Vodstok
The victims being mostly assholes. Where's the sacrifice? There is no horror in watching a dick get his comeuppance. But like in the Ring and The Hills Have Eyes, the victims didn't deserve what they got. That is fucking terrifying.
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+1 on this. It's so glaring and transparent when a movie sets up a jerk for the slaughter just for some easy audience gratification. It not only severely lessens the horror, it telegraphs the character's fate so there is no suspense. What's worse, it demonstrates the writer/director's willingness to pander to the audience thereby draining the rest of the movie of tension. The moment you know the film makers are only out to make a crowd-pleaser is the moment you can predict everything that is going to happen to all the characters, and from then on you are just marking off checkboxes in a list of cliches.