Not a horror, but good suspense

Rating: Null/10 (22 August 2004)

***Serious Spoilers***
I liked the movie. I knew there was 'something up' when the characters kept referring to the outside world as "The Towns" all the time. That made me very suspicious. Also, I actually commented out loud in the theater "Considering they are 'Those we do not speak of', y'all sure are speaking of them a lot!"
Unlike some other people who evidently went into the movie _looking_ for the twist, I found myself surprised by the stabbing of a main character, and didn't even notice the apparently anachronistic use of certain words and concepts ("dumpster", etc). I also noted the (again, out of place) glass greenhouse.
Another thing I noted, after the fact this was all on a game preserve was revealed, was the fact that the village was lucky to remain secret as long as it had. Even if commercial planes were diverted from above the preserve (and this ignores the fact that planes _many_ miles away can be seen from their contrails), that does not mean a small, private plane could not fly over the preserve. Teens would try to sneak in to camp (or just as a lark, like the village teens standing on the stump), and of course, these days there are web sites that provide satellite imaging of any part of the world you like. Granted, the images are a few years old, but the village is what, 20-30 years old. Has NO ONE ever looked at a satellite image of the preserve and seen the buildings and fields???