I never understood how anyone could be fooled either. Don't you think three white kids vanishing in the woods would have made national headlines? Not to mention what family would would let the last surviving footage be released as a movie?
That beign said, I thought was a pretty decent movie, although it really doesn't hold up to repeated viewings once you realize the filmakers didn't 'hide' any clues in the background. I think the problem most people had was it required a bit of empathy and imagination to 'get' it. Plus it didn't end with a scary rubber monster.
The ending still gives me the creeps. Even before I saw it you couldn't get me to spend a night in the woods on a bet.
That beign said, I thought was a pretty decent movie, although it really doesn't hold up to repeated viewings once you realize the filmakers didn't 'hide' any clues in the background. I think the problem most people had was it required a bit of empathy and imagination to 'get' it. Plus it didn't end with a scary rubber monster.
The ending still gives me the creeps. Even before I saw it you couldn't get me to spend a night in the woods on a bet.