Because I hardly understood what was going on in each segment.
It was weird, bizarre and messy.
Been looking for the wikipedia article of this movie but there's no fully detailed plot written yet...
Good luck trying to get an answer for that.
This movie knows full well that it makes no sense lol.
I think that's part of its appeal. In a couple of the segments, who knows what's going on? Just take it on face value and whatever you get out of it. Lack of rationality is a trademark of this genre.
shareYea on one hand I appreciated the fact that you were just supposed to be thrown into the middle of all this insanity and just take it as it comes, but the lack of any kind of a coherent throughline does make the entire thing a little unsatisfying.
Still very well done overall, and I figured pretty early on that there wouldn't be any clean, neat bow-tying moment, but I'd still love some sort of unifying theory of everything that went on.
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Live and learn. At least we lived.
I can make a few guesses. Feel free to add your own.
1st story/5th story: Mitch and his friend go to get revenge on the man that wronged his daughter. However, killing the wife and/or daughter was considered taking it too far, so those horrible demons appeared to pursue them. Mitch's friend gets a messy death (and that's it, lucky him), but Mitch, the man who planned the revenge mission, is forced into a kind of hell/purgatory where he's forever chasing his daughter but never catching her.
2nd story: I'm not sure if there's another layer to this one. They have the bad luck to fall in with some immortal satanists, and the main girl gets away, only to be run over by the protagonist of the 3rd story. There's a subplot involving her guilt over a dead friend (and in one shot a demon appears to be watching her), but does that have anything to do with what goes down?
3rd story: This one is interesting because Mather Zickel's character seems to get off without a true punishment, even though he was staring at his phone when he ran the girl over.
4th story: The weakest of the bunch, I think. They make a big show about the bar and its patrons, only to move on to a tattoo parlor. This one could have been fleshed out, better. I think the point of it was that you can't bring someone back from "Hell", especially when they belong there.
3rd story: This one is interesting because Mather Zickel's character seems to get off without a true punishment, even though he was staring at his phone when he ran the girl over.
They're all in limbo. Just accept everything as it is.
shareThis movie is pure *beep* gumbo. If you like the taste more power to you. It was the kind of bad that makes you want to punch anyone who says its anything but pure *beep*
6.1 rating on IMDB is a complete joke.
You hate Congress but every election you re-elect YOUR "guy" and wonder why things never change!
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I posted this in another thread but basically my roommate said it's because these people are all in purgatory.....and they still have a chance to escape but the guys in the masks went to far when they killed the daughter so they are getting pulled down into hell and so those those monsters are from hell and thats what the ground opening up is..........I think shes right, she said that if you listen closely that the dj says that you can always get right the next time.......I guess those guys didn't get it right hahahaha
Which explains why the movie loops back on itself. Lucas got to go home this time around for doing the right thing. If you listen to the story with the cult, the band seemed to have been a foursome, and the wackos appeared to be expecting four to arrive at the house. Seems like something happened to this Alice good or bad before things cycled back to their story. Of course the consigned aren't supposed to remember from one replay to the next, but the one vegetarian girl could hear things she wasn't supposed to.
shareI thought that the bands fourth friend, who wasn't with them, had gone to "a better place" (heaven) and they were in purgatory or hell...
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