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Something I Noticed

posted 10 years ago by GIRFanatic
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I don't know if anyone else noticed this, but in the first movie when Louis buries Gage, his wife, and Church, and they return to life as monsters, before their deaths they were nice. In the sequel when Zowie was buried he came back mean, but before he was nice. Yet when Gus was alive he was a jackass, yet when he was buried and returned he was somewhat nicer minus being a zombie. So I wonder if when you bury a nice person or animal up there they return as evil, but if you bury a mean person or animal up there they return as somewhat nice. I could be wrong, just something I sort of noticed.

[–] Livana_Faolan 10 years ago

Gus wasn't, "nicer," when he came back from the dead. He raped his wife on the night he came back. Not to mention the fact that he became a murderer.

[–] GIRFanatic 10 years ago

I didn't mean to say nicer, I just meant to say that when Gus returned he was still a sicko, but at certain parts of the movie he treated his stepson more fairly. I just mean to say what would happen if you buried a mean *beep* there, would they come back as somewhat nicer. Since Gage and his mom were both nice before they died, but when they came back they were monsters.

[–] fiatlux-1 10 years ago

I believe whoever or whatever is buried there comes back evil, regardless of their personality while alive.
The fact that Gus acted 'normal' at all was very likely an act. The evil could be sneaky, as we saw in the first film with Church the cat.
Church acted mostly normal for much of the film, but as we see eventually... 'it' was still evil.

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[–] pmac7902 8 years ago

I think your answer lies in Jud's line from part 1. "The ground up there...is sour." It doesn't reverse personality, it just makes whatever is buried there evil.

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