Buffybot ,'Dirty Girls'
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Setup (not twist):
A village of 17th-century folk live in a secluded valley, afraid of terrible monsters who roam the surrounding woods.
Twist (I'm serious):
They live in a NATURE RESERVE! It's set in the present, and the founders of the Village have basically hidden for X years in this nature reserve and told their kids it's the past to stop them leaving. The monsters are....Modern people!!!!
Ha ha ha ha ha! Somebody speculated as much (I think on this thread) some time ago, and it was like, Well, it can't be any sillier than Signs.
Although, your spoilage given, where do they get the dye that can make that color yellow for their Safety Capes, and for that matter, if they are felting their wool, doesn't that mean they are poisoning themselves with arsenic and are thus all quite mad??
Got to love a movie where the villains are park rangers.
You know I read that somewhere but I thought it was a hypothetical of the lamest twist the movie could possibly have. I didn't think that was the twist.
So what --
do the park rangers terrorise the community to keep them on the property? And for gods sake HOW did these people manage to stay so closed off and protected??? I have other questions but I don't think any of them will be answered with any kind of satisfcation.
Then what is the point of the movie? Is the whole movie the buildup to the twist? Or is there a lot of wacky/suspenseful post-twist stuff?
Don't ask me. I haven't seen it, just interviewed reeling, shellshocked victims of the film.
More info:
Now that I think about it, I'm leaning towards giving it a 'good Bad Movie'-type review. Some of it is hilariously bad. There's a lot of stuff about 'The Shed We Must Never Go In', 'The Ones We Do Not Speak Of' and, perhaps my favourite exchange:
Blind Chick: "Do not fear. We have Magic Rocks ."
Random Guy: "Oh yeah? So why have we not heard of these Magic Rocks before now?"
I'm not spoiling myself; I'll judge for myself how I think the twist is. My current pondering is how M. Night managed to work himself into a cameo, cause an Indian guy'd be pretty out of place in nineteenth century rural America.
Better still:
"The shed was my favourite bit. The monsters, incidentally - and I have difficulty even typing this without giggling - the monsters are actually the Village Elders in homemade monster suits. "
And in fact:
"They keep the monster suits in The Shed Which We Do Not Go Into. "
Huh. This might be worth seeing even though I'm spoiled.
Maybe when it hits the cheapie theaters.