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Spoilers... So, the wolf, and why...

posted 4 years ago by johnnybiscotti (446)
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So the wolf was a real mean wolf which they had seen before? Because the wife had a strong reaction when the husband mentioned the wolf might be back..

The dude discovered a massacre scene at the camp site. Why did he sit and wait, doesn't seem to be the best option. Was he afraid of getting kicked out of his home in the woods, I guess?

The killer, he's just a Psycho? It all seems kind of disjointed, but I suppose the world is as well.

Hard to tell everyone's motivations.

[–] subratjain1 (203) 4 years ago

In my opinion, the movie went downhill pretty quickly to plain dumb. Started as a good premise and ignored the wolf altogether. I hated it.

Now to answer your question, I also deduced that wolf had some kind of clash with the family before, agree with your thought.

There dude after discovering the site started hunting the psycho killer, the traps were set for him. If you will remember the killer asks the wife "what do you think your husband was hunting?" That was the hint for me that he saw "the dude" setting traps for him.

It is absolutely disjointed, just to create a shock for the viewer and fails miserably. The killer is just a random psycho with no history, like half of America as per Hollywood :-)

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

He sat at the massacre site because that was the wolf's food supply; hence the ring in the wolf's droppings. He was waiting for the wolf to return so he could kill it and probably thinking about getting a twofer with the return of the killer.

[–] johnnybiscotti (446) 4 years ago

Good call about waiting for the wolf. Thank you.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

This part of the movie didn't make much sense.

He knows a killer is about. The sheer number of bodies tells him that the killer comes here regularly to torture and kill his victims. He knows some of the kills are relatively fresh so there's a good chance the killer is still close by. The human is a much bigger threat than the wolf.

The smart thing to do would have been to get the family out of the woods, and seek out law enforcement. Instead he goes back to the killing ground and appears to be settling to wait for... something. That's just stupid on his part. Maybe he thought that hunting another human would be the ultimate challenge. (I have no idea, just spit-balling...)

That all said, his body was found in some random part of the woods anyway which raises even more questions about how it got there when the killer was severely injured. Did the killer kill the father before or after his leg injury? How did the body wind up so far from the killing field? Etc.

[–] MrFilmJunkie (899) 4 years ago

it's basically 'the last house on the left' with a wolf thrown in as a distraction from how thin the plot is.

didn't get the motivation of the killer either. did he just randomly kill people and let the bodies lie around for the wolf to eat them?

[–] cyguration (3951) 4 years ago

He would bring them out to his little den and apparently watch them die after raping and torturing them.

And yes, he would let the wolves eat them.

It made no sense given that the wolves likely would have eaten him, too, while he was out there once they got a taste for flesh. Based on how decayed some of the bodies were, it looked like he had been doing that for years.

It was also frustrating because he was sloppy as heck, and Joe was able to track him quite easy once he picked up the trail from the wolf, which led him to the not-so-hidden den of dead bodies. Yet somehow Lou was able to get the drop on Joe while Joe was sleeping.

How?!?!

Lou kept his headphones on, was noisy, and left evidence all over the place. I don't see how he would get the drop on Joe?! Joe's wounds also looked like he was attacked in the head while he was sleep, which didn't make a whole lot of sense, given that Joe and Renee were both light sleepers. It would have been different if Lou was an expert marksman, maybe hunted using a bow or crossbow; maybe if he were keen on using misdirection and false leads to hunt human prey. But that wasn't the case at all. He just seemed to be a random, sloppy serial rapist/killer.

Due to the writer undermining both Joe and the daughter to give the mother her feminist empowerment moment at the end, it made the film a complete waste. I regret having watched it now.

It's a real shame... because the first half was really good.

[–] lennonforever (2453) 3 years ago

Was he afraid of getting kicked out of his home in the woods, I guess?

YES! I think he KNEW he was on federal land and decided to keep the murders secret to avoid attention to his homestead.

[–] flyingeddies (49) 2 years ago

I was getting werewolf signs early on. Shot of the full moon, murders without eating the bodies, and a wolf that didn't die from a regular bullet. And finally, a skinned body that didn't die.
By the end I still wasn't sure - it seemed the killer was leaving bodies out similar to the yuppies leaving out trash for the bears, thus giving an alpha wolf a taste for human flesh.
The father knew he would be faced with moving to the city if he didn't get rid of the threat - whatever that threat really was. This movie broke almost all of the rules by letting the dog die, silently letting the father die, and likely the daughter die. While I like easy enjoyment of cookie cutter Marvel films, I also like to be surprised.
I was hoping for some kind of twist where the wolf was protecting them from the killer. I'd like to hear the director's vision - I'm thinking we missed some of their points, and it wasn't our fault. They could have done a much better job putting this together. But I still enjoyed it largely.