One thing I don't like about this movie is the way the Street Schizo vanishes. He doesn't die at the end, no big duel with someone, and kills only once. I have a feeling that the Bag Lady and him should be one character. It would be so obvious. Come on, he should have killed Wyndham at least. Perhaps Alice Cooper hadn't got more time for the shooting?
shareYeah I didn't realize it was him until the alley scene actually. And then I wondered where he went for the rest of the movie. He certainly seemed more interesting than some of the other characters. Overall I think the movie took too long to get going, and then ended up finishing way too quickly without wrapping up the story. The professor parts at the beginning where he is trying to fuse philosophy and science seemed really unnecessary considering the movie's end product.
shareI'd say the mysterious vanishing of the 'street schizo' is less interesting than the mysterious vanishing of the mysterious cylinder including its mysterious liquid contents. Broken mirror = all gone! Ouch. Huge (mysterious) plot hole imho.
A man builds. A parasite asks "Where is my share?" - Andrew Ryan
Did you watch the movie? The possessed girls moved it up to the bedroom, the liquid rose to the ceiling and entered the sleeping girls mouth and filled her up and ended up possessing her too.
It was shown right in front of your eyes
I have a feeling that the Bag Lady and him should be one character. It would be so obvious. Come on, he should have killed Wyndham at least. Perhaps Alice Cooper hadn't got more time for the shooting?
Thank you!
shareOnce Catherine pushed the Prince of Darkness into the realm where the Father was trapped in. The street people were no longer under the control of the liquid. And the possessed students all died.
shareYes, you see them dispersing right after the scene where it shows all the now dead possessed people inside the church having the PoD liquid evaporating out of their mouths.
Personally, I think the street people scenes didn't really contribute to the story as a whole and should have been mostly edited out of the theatrical version but I guess Carpenter was dead**snicker** set on getting that bike impalement scene in the film. lol "Why?" you ask? Because, I think Carpenter should have taken a cue from Hitchcock(i.e. "There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it") and implied all of the things they did as opposed to literally showing it on screen(thus leaving it to the audience's own imagination). Actually, I did a fan edit of this where I edited down or removed these and I think it makes for a much tighter and tenser movie. I affectionately called it the "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" edit. lol
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Interesting, I always thought the street people scenes were the scariest ones. As they just stand there.
I think the scariest thing in this movie is that the "possessed" persons act so weird while they still look normal. And we, humans find this disturbing, it´s in our genes. I believe if they had zombie makeups for instance, it would be less disturbing. So this low budget solution of not having makeups is actually one of the strongest things in the movie, and that´s why Carpenter is a genius.
Unfortunately I´m old enough and saw this movie in a theatre first, although I was just a kid back then. By the time it ended it was night and I walked home alone and I remember seeing a guy just standing at a corner and these pictures from the movie came back and hell I did´t stop running until I got home.