her throat slit pretty brutally during it

Spoiler - the biker. He could smell something was up, something was SERIOUSLY fishy. He enters the house with a big ass six shooter, he could have done all of the bad guys. He could have observed some general rule of not standing so close to your adversay that he can knock the gun out of your hand, and not to walk int shadows to get his hand chopped off. That fool!

The J. Brewster character, about 110 lbs, unarmed, tired, weak, terrified - she is on the doorstep to FREEDOM, literally on the doorstep. She can run, escape, but she decides - with odds 1 to 20 - to take on the bad guys alone. Real smart.

How about the younger brother - he has the cop, he bashes his face in the ground 10 times. Uh, why doesn't he kill him? Why doesn't he smash his face 10 times more, why doesn't he get up and jump on his face, kick him in the neck and kill him? I know, I know, because he heard the chainsaw far off in the distance. Again, what was he gonna do? Well what he did do wasn't a success, was it... finish the job FFS.

- and the biker again, why didn't the biker go to his station of bikers and get back up? His odds would have been tripled. Well screw that, why didn't he just go Gun-bananza?

Maybe it's just my skewed train of thougt, but why didn't the boys - soldier and younger brother - KILL those two fat women/mothers/sisters when they sat there giving away their location? Get over there, stab them in the neck. This was life or death! And why didn't the soldier guy disarm the "cop" when he had him, and etc. etc.

-Yep,he wasn't as badass as he pretended to be. Or the scriptwriter wasn't as clever as he thought.

Well this is toughie,since what would you do in this situation? You're in the middle of nowhere,and by the time you do get help. All your friends will be dead,and you will have to live with the guilt of running away and not helping them,when you could have tried...even if you died in the process.

Also not knowing the area well,with how 'dead' the town is and so forth,could lead to some problems of not being able to locate the house again once you go miles outside the county into the nearest alive town in the middle of the pitch black night!

Unfortunately since Hoyt and the family are all alive in the remake which takes place AFTER this film. None of them can die,which is one of the biggest strikes against the film.

If the remake didn't exist and this were the 'first' film. Then yes I would want to see some major asskicking slaughter of the villians once the victims one up them in the finale fighting for their lives.

But unfortunately studios never do that today,and will always leave room open for a sequel(they're continuring the Saw films after how it appears there is nowhere else for it to go after what happens to everyone Jigsaw included at the finale of Saw 3). So this takes the 'fun' out of various films today as well when you're aware of how the studios are operating.

For once I would love to see the killer in this case get mutilated to pieces at the finale and NOT come back for a sequel since there won't be a sequel!

This is one of the biggest flaws of the film in my opinion,since it had so much potential. But again,the prequel trappings heavily restrict such new for the series plot devices which could lead to some major retribution on the family in the finale.

But if he were a smart biker,he would have gone back to get his troops before heading to the house with the girl. And then all hell could have sprung loose as they tried to save the others and kick some serious ass.

Unfortunately again the prequel thing restricts the potential of such plot devices. Of course the family could slaughter the hell out of the bikers in one huge free for all slaughter athon if the family must live for the remake. But it would be even more unbelievable in this case if they went for that action-cartoonish route. Since the chances of a huge gang of bikers overtaking a small but evil family is higher than the family overtaking the armed adrenaline filled strong bikers.


Since they never met the two fat women until they saw them in the kitchen. I doubt they would want to waste time slaughtering them,since while nutcases,they weren't 'harming' anyone obviously. And it would be simpler to free their friend and run on out,since there is no way the fat woman would have the energy to run after them.

Also since the fat women were not attempting to kill them(in an obvious way),would you feel ok killing someone in cold blood? Again some moral dillemas come into play in such a situation. And if the fat women were about to slice the neck of their friend or cause some sort of harm,I'm sure they would have had no problems killing their fat asses.

But again it's a intense hectic move fast situation,and killing them would have slowed them down. Meanwhile Hoyt and Tommy are agressive strong wackos that are incredibly dangerous and pose a bigger threat than the fat women.