This movie had the basic plot to be quite a gripping story but, yet again (Oh! How often this happens in movies!), the characters' behaviour is totally atypical and that spoils it.
Of course, if everyone HAD behaved logically, than there wouldn't really have been much of a story and thus no movie - and that may have been a good thing! If Mary (Laura Breckenridge) had taken the time to think it through, she would have been most sensible to have pretended she didn't know the guy was impaled on the front of her Jeep until the next morning by which time she would have been sober. Then all she would have needed to do was call the cops and tell her story exactly as it happened - she swerved to avoid an obstacle in the road and bounced over rough terrain through some bushes and never realised she had hit anyone - which would have been absolutely true. The cops would have probably attempted to nail her for dangerous driving or something that a half-decent lawyer would have got her out of and that would have been that.
But no! Mary just had to complicate things out of all proportion and create a scenario for a horror movie didn't she? I must admit the victim of the accident was very "Jasonish" in that he was practically indestructible - how much can a human body take for goodness sake? He was initially hit by a fast-moving vehicle and carried some distance impaled on the front bumper, then he was bludgeoned violently with a golf club and buried in soaking wet dirt. Then he had one eye put out with an electric plug and hit full-on by the same Jeep and thrown through the windscreen where he fought like a Trojan until eventually getting thrown off by a bit of sharp braking and finally run over. Even then I was half expecting him to get up and try again!
Then there were all the other inexplicable bits. Like where did the victim call Mary from and how did he know both her numbers? What sort of boyfriend was Rick? (Well, I guess we really know that one! Anyone who would pull a hand-on-the-shoulder-from-behind stunt in the situation he and Mary were in deserved to get his head bludgeoned with anything heavy that was close at hand.) And how does Mary get away with her little "private funeral" in the woods with enough lights on her jeep to run the battery flat in about ten minutes without anyone noticing? What half-sane teenager would wander around her house announcing her presence with a torch after all that had happened? And, for heaven's sake, WHY hadn't the victim's wife called the emergency services the moment she set eyes on him? Like, what loving wife would find her husband all smashed up and covered in blood and do nothing more than wipe a bit of it away? Come on!
Sorry Ms McCallion, you shouldn't have bothered!
Of course, if everyone HAD behaved logically, than there wouldn't really have been much of a story and thus no movie - and that may have been a good thing! If Mary (Laura Breckenridge) had taken the time to think it through, she would have been most sensible to have pretended she didn't know the guy was impaled on the front of her Jeep until the next morning by which time she would have been sober. Then all she would have needed to do was call the cops and tell her story exactly as it happened - she swerved to avoid an obstacle in the road and bounced over rough terrain through some bushes and never realised she had hit anyone - which would have been absolutely true. The cops would have probably attempted to nail her for dangerous driving or something that a half-decent lawyer would have got her out of and that would have been that.
But no! Mary just had to complicate things out of all proportion and create a scenario for a horror movie didn't she? I must admit the victim of the accident was very "Jasonish" in that he was practically indestructible - how much can a human body take for goodness sake? He was initially hit by a fast-moving vehicle and carried some distance impaled on the front bumper, then he was bludgeoned violently with a golf club and buried in soaking wet dirt. Then he had one eye put out with an electric plug and hit full-on by the same Jeep and thrown through the windscreen where he fought like a Trojan until eventually getting thrown off by a bit of sharp braking and finally run over. Even then I was half expecting him to get up and try again!
Then there were all the other inexplicable bits. Like where did the victim call Mary from and how did he know both her numbers? What sort of boyfriend was Rick? (Well, I guess we really know that one! Anyone who would pull a hand-on-the-shoulder-from-behind stunt in the situation he and Mary were in deserved to get his head bludgeoned with anything heavy that was close at hand.) And how does Mary get away with her little "private funeral" in the woods with enough lights on her jeep to run the battery flat in about ten minutes without anyone noticing? What half-sane teenager would wander around her house announcing her presence with a torch after all that had happened? And, for heaven's sake, WHY hadn't the victim's wife called the emergency services the moment she set eyes on him? Like, what loving wife would find her husband all smashed up and covered in blood and do nothing more than wipe a bit of it away? Come on!
Sorry Ms McCallion, you shouldn't have bothered!
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