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would they get in trouble over Evil Ed

posted 8 years ago by stephenalienkissane
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Eds dead body was in Brewsters house and as he turned back in to a human and not wolf , he had part of a wood banister sticking out of him .

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[–] bearuk 8 years ago

I wondered about that. There's broken furniture, balustrade, chandelier and a dead body in the hallway, not to mention the trashing of Charley's room and moms door surround, but it's all smiles at the end. I hope Ed had a nice funeral.

[–] CountVladDracula 8 years ago

According some sources Ed's body "disappeared" but he was presumed Dead. Originally he was to be the villain the sequel. In the sequel it's claimed that the police believe Jerry Dangridge had a cult and convinced people he was a vampire and that's how they explained away everything.

[–] Foxbarking 8 years ago

I think a lot of people missed this in the movie. When Ed is staked, he reverts back to a human. But Peter Vincent removes the stake from his heart and then leaves.

In most vampire lore, staking a vampire through the heart does not kill a vampire. It only paralyzes them. Once the vampire is staked, then you have to decapitate it. But if the stake is removed, then the vampire is reanimated.

Peter Vincent made a comment that everything that works in the movies seems to work in real life. But the paralysis feature doesn't really occur in movies much. It exists in folklore, but the movies have changed it so the stake kills the vampire. Another thing to note is that staking Jerry didn't kill him.

So Peter removed the stake, which reanimated Evil Ed and thus his body was not left behind.