I think what made this one stand out is that it's the exact opposite of the typical horror trend where you'll be sitting in the audience, watching the future victims do things they obviously shouldn't be doing. Where you sit there and yell at the screen "don't open the closet!" or "don't walk into the woods!" Here I was just constantly thinking "just do SOMETHING." Run without turning back, fight back. And there's so much buildup to it the whole way through, not just the weird couple being killers, but the main couple being unwilling to stand up for themselves. Their daughter gets her tongue cut out and gets kidnapped right in front of them, and they basically just cry and accept it. Even at the very end, when they're told to strip and walk down into the quarry, they just do it. Like they specifically have nothing left to lose, they know the couple is just going to kill them anyway, but they still aren't willing to fight back. They weren't tied up! They weren't injured beyond like two punches to the husband! The killers weren't even armed! If they had just took off right there, they might have gotten away! So when that last line of why he did it all comes, "Because you let me," it just hits so hard. And then the sequence of them just being slowly, brutally killed by throwing rocks at them from the distance, a literal depiction of them standing there and just taking it, it just drops your stomach.
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