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Stupidest Killer Reveal (spoilers obviously)

posted 11 years ago by DevilYouKnow
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I mean seriously. The professor killed everyone involved with Travis's film so he could take it?

Bull blop, I say. First of all, we can see from the opening scene that a lot of these student films have extras, helpers, hanger-ons and the like. Also, it's not like Travis woudn't talk about his film with anyone. He doesn't have any friends? Or students on set he would discuss the film with? No other professors would know about it?

Also (ahem), the police wouldn't be the slightest suspicious that everyone involved died? Even though he tried to blame the final girl (forgot her name) but c'mon, that would stick?

Ugh. Stupid killer reveal pissed me off. Well that and all the cliches this movie had in it. And the red herrings. Also that ending where she's now a hot shot movie director. Yeah, right.

Rant ended. Sorry. ;)

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[–] AceRoccola 11 years ago

You can see from the scene where Travis is editing his film and Amy is looking in that he's very protective of his work. He doesn't want people seeing it. It's not like he was going off to the bar every night and projecting the workprint onto the wall.

And "he doesn't have any friends?" is a pretty uninspired critique. He's meant to be a brilliant filmmaker and by all signs in his brief screen time he appears to be something of a recluse. Maybe he doesn't. Besides, who shows their friends every single stage of every thing that they do? I don't rush to my friends every time I make incremental progress on something, even when they are in the same field.

As for your other complaint, yes, that is how framing someone else for a crime works. If you can't abide by that basic plot component then you're throwing out every film that has ever used a frameup as a plot device.