Professor Nora and her students hike a long way through the woods to an abandoned bunker where a caretaker lets them in. Many of the students dress inappropriately for the trip. They also complain about having to pay for the permit and being told what to bring even though this is a trip to work on their thesis. What is their thesis about? I have no idea. Also does everyone have the same thesis or is this a group project? If it’s a group project, you just know someone is going to slack off.
After being locked with the understanding the caretaker will let them out on Monday, the group finds a room with old military style bunk beds. They push the rusty door shut and lock it, which isn’t a great idea in an abandoned building since you don’t know if it will open once you shut it.
I don’t know most of the girls names. They’re said in passing, rather than having any introduction. I only know the characters who are the biggest pain and the most ridiculous. Isabel forgot to bring food but then complains about the food someone else graciously shared with her. Betty wore thigh high boots and an off the shoulder short dress for the hike, and the next day puts on eye liner when she wakes up. I don’t have high hopes for Betty’s contribution to the thesis.
When two of the girls disappear the first night, this starts the downhill slide into panic, more disappearances and murder. What they don’t know is there’s a cannibal in the bunker and they look like lunch.
The group doesn’t work well together and aren’t very bright for thesis students. One finds the cannibals lair, complete with blood, guts and killing tools. But instead of running back to warn the others, she wanders around looking at things and is promptly taken out. When Betty is captured and thrown in a cell, she immediately asks him if he wants her to strip. Oh poor dumb sweet Betty. There is nothing in this room, his demeanor, or the weapon he’s holding that would make that a plausible question.
The biggest puzzle is where did Nora get the permit? Is there a record of this so someone knows they went there? The caretaker tells them there are 17 kilometers of tunnel, it’s easy to get lost and many people have tried to shelter in the bunkers but no one has ever seen them again. So does that mean you can get in without the permit?
Also how feasible is it for a cannibal to survive in a locked bunker? How often do people wander far enough into the tunnels that he can grab them? And how much can he eat at once? He’s chowing down on these women, but there are enough people in the bunker that he’d probably have food for quite awhile. Yet he seems to be gorging on it.
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| Betty on the left in her thigh high boots and off the shoulder sweater dress - the perfect outfit for a long hike and weekend in an abandoned bunker |
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| The clean, dust free abandoned bunker |
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| The matress-less bunk beds |
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