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Originally Posted by horcrux2007
I liked the characters as well. I just thought the pacing was horrible and the ending was them basically running around a haunted house. It seemed like the ending should have been much darker than it actually was. And was the whole thing supernatural or was it just some insane group of rednecks?
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I agree with the pacing. When things started getting weird like seeing characters around from houses over 100 miles ago, that was intense and started to get exciting, but it took forever to get there, and then it went too fast and the ending felt rushed and as you said, could have been darker. It was good enough, but it felt anti-climatic. From the point of finding the masks on the windshield it lost a lot of the drama the pace was making. I really freaked over the filming at night part though. I did a double take and thought 'wait wasn't there five of them... who's recording?!' XD
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Originally Posted by Giganticface
I actually kinda liked it. I don't think it's necessarily a great movie, but there were scenes that I found pretty scary. Maybe that's because the redneck genre works for me, and I also have a general mistrust of any kind of loosely-regulated "ride"-style entertainment, like carnivals and haunts. I just feel like bad things, both accidental and malicious, might happen at those places.
I didn't mind the possible supernatural aspect, nor the vagueness around it, however I didn't think it was necessary. Straight up bad guys would have been enough.
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I don't know if I understand what you mean by redneck genre here...
But I do really love the idea for the movie, it being the idea of a haunted house alone as the scare. All the interviews and what not making it clear that these things can be taken too far and have gone too far. In that view it would have been fine without any supernatural aspect (if there even was, it was a bit vague to say if it was or not), but at least they kept it minimal.