Similarities?
Discuss.
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That's what I thought too, along with a little "Jacob's Ladder" thrown in for good measure.
shareYou know, good point, i do see a lot of "Carnival of Souls" in this movie (with a higher budget or course). Sixth Sense? Nah, but hey, Bruce Willis in a remake of the Swimmer could pull it off!
shareActually, I see Michael Douglas or Mel Gibson as Neddy. Why do you see similarities with Carnival of Souls and Sixth Sense? Ned Merrill wasn't dead. He was just insane. As the short story goes, the seasons were changing and things in his life were getting worse, but he was so gone he couldn't see it. But a good argument can be made that none of the people that Ned met were really there. It all could've been in his mind. It could've been something in him trying to tell him what was really going on. I can see a remake to this, but whoever plays Ned should get into the same shape as Burt Lancaster. How many fifty-year-old men do you know that look like that?
shareNo, Ned isn't literally dead, but the life he's left with -- compared with the one he appears to share with his neighbors -- is virtually like death. I see the Sixth Sense parallel in that respect.
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I see what you mean. He does kind of walk around like a ghost in the movie. He doesn't belong and the life he once knew is no longer there. I can understand what you mean now. Like Bruce Willis, he doesn't know what's really going on. He has no recollection of his life going down the drain, just as Bruce Willis has no recollection of being shot and dying.
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