Hypothermic strategy? Yeah, probably spoilers...

How does a PhD of ANY scientific field manage to decide almost killing himself into a nearly useless, hypothermic sloth is a better strategy than just soaking all available towels, blankets, etc in water, FREEZING them, and using that as a means of escaping detection by the organism? Has he never seen the first Harry Potter film, Star Trek, or just heard of a cloak?

Also, even if that failed to cross his mind as he lay there waiting for his core temp to decrease, given he had just stopped them from lighting the forest ablaze AND his ass was on the line on the way to the squad car, how did lighting tiny fireworks seem like a better strategy than actually lighting a substantial fire which everyone knew they had the means to do?

And finally, after forgetting that you don't need to freeze to death to mask heat, and forgetting that there are easily created and far more effective distractions to help preserve your life, that of your girl, and of the man you clearly wish to save despite what he did to you and other innocents, then perhaps don't also FORGET TO CLOSE THE F@&$ING CAR DOOR after it took every ounce of your needlessly tapped energy reserves to get there??

I get that every horror movie has folks making piss-poor decisions at certain key moments of stress and fear, but this was just badly contrived writing which detracts from the other decent premises already set in motion. It was like they had to do EVERYTHING against obvious alternatives to ramp up the tension necessary for what turned out to be a not-so climatic ending.

While not a filmmaker nor critic, I find myself wondering why, after getting the funding and producers necessary to bring an idea into being, why don't they just consider the scripted moves of the characters for five more minutes and come up with a premise which also respects the characters' intelligence as well as that of the audience? Change a couple of moves at the end, and that could've been a real gem of independent horror instead of an exercise in face-palming.

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