-Did anyone else find it odd that when Alice captured her future dead self on her cell phone, she apparently didn't run screaming into the night like probably 90% of us would've done when they realized what they saw?
-Also, I'm assuming the statutory rapes laws in Australia are relaxed, because in America it wouldn't have mattered if the sexual acts were consentual or not...
I was wondering about the footage but think she was probably a tad drunk as the girls had been drinking and didn't immediately realise what she saw, and when she did, probably was too shocked to react instantly. I personally would not walk towards a person in the middle of nowhere on my own either though.I would have run the other way when I saw them.
Mind you I think Alice was already well expecting her death so part of her was drawn to the figure and on some level she was expecting her death due to dreams etc.
As for statutory rape laws, they rarely get used in Australia. The age of consent is 16.
But did she walk towards "the ghost", or did it approach her? The way I saw it, she was just standing/sitting there while the ghost was getting closer.
I Love Horror Movies! http://www.facebook.com/pages/I-love-horror-movies/221977768123
That's a good point. I'm not sure. I think she probably walked a bit towards it and it walked a bit towards her. I would need to rewatch the movie to pick that up again, but I haven't got a copy and I'm not game to do so yet. lol.
shareThis scene is very scary in a horror movie sense. However I thought it ruined the integrity of the documentary style slightly. Its fine if someone talks about seeing a ghost but to have it captured on a phone camera was a bit over the top (especially since the previous ghost images turned out to be a hoax put together by the brother).
But thinking about it some more and watching the scene again you can see she is filming the ground while walking but then it actually cuts away to the vision of the ghost, when the phone is sitting fairly stationery. My theory is that she put the phone on the ground and filmed herself walking towards it.
I don't think she did put it down as when she approaches it she gets right into it's face and the camera moves towards it. I don't think that could happen if it was stationery.
shareYeah true, it isn't completely stationery. However the zoom could have been added by post editing?
shareIt looks like for me that the "ghost" was still and she was walking over it.
But if it was fake, she could just have asked somebody to hold it and walk over her.
But if it was fake... why would she bury it? And how'd she know she'd die months later and be like that?
It seems she was upset. For some reason she wanted to hide the movie/phone. When I watched it, I felt she buried it with other objects of her so that, if somebody'd find it in the future, he'd know it was hers because of her objects. Like she was hiding it there and wanted anybody who'd find it to know it was hers.
Well, anyway, this whole plot doesn't make much sense. First she's a ghost in cameras with worst quality possible, then it's fake, then the same exact fake scenes were the ones to capture on the other side of the screen a real ghost.
But not all of the pictures were fakes. What about the one of Alice when Ray and Matthew were gone? And the ones in the closing credits?
shareNot sure what she did, but all I know is that scene and the 'jump scare' as it's called, took me 10 minutes and 3 cigarettes to recover from, as my sound was quite loud.
---
"Objects in rear-view mirror are closer than they might appear" (Jurassic Park - 1993)
Damn it, I need to stop thinking about this movie now. I am too afraid to go to sleep, and it's been a few years since I saw it, too. But thinking about that scene never fails to keep me up at night :(
shareI found it odd that she could actually take video footage using the old phone that she had - there didn't seem to be a camera in the phone that they found so I was wondering how she took it.
Bloody freaked me right out though!
I found it odd that she could actually take video footage using the old phone that she had - there didn't seem to be a camera in the phone that they found so I was wondering how she took it.
I had one and it did have a video camera - quite a good one for the time as well (in that it could record more than 20 seconds at a time!) I think it was the Nokia 6600.
Yes it was!