She gasps and clutches at herself as he apologizes - and then she lightly dismisses the ""accident."" Rather than let him retrieve the chip, she pays him off with an equivalent amount of chips from her stack.Behind the lights, faces watch from the darkness, ready to laugh or scream in terror."The excerpt was a description of the prologue of he preceding film.Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)Writer/director Wes Craven""s post-modern reconceptualized film was the seventh in the series, but not following the continuity of the previous five films.The village""s wells dried up and the river turned to sand.The crops were swallowed by the earth and the animals laid down and turned to dust.A fire set in the fields was a diversion, allowing the evil Maharaja""s men to steal the village""s children.Is that rue?Melanie: Oh yes there are.Mitch: Well, these are for my sister, for her birthday see, and uh, as she""s only going to be eleven, I, I wouldn""t want a pair of birds that were too demonstrative.