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Crawford's fate

posted 16 years ago by DarthSeether
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I assume that Katherine is destined for a mental institution. From that laugh she seems driven totally insane from either her pineal gland being stimulated by the machine, or the ghastly sights from beyond (likely both).

But what is even more disturbing to me is contemplating Crawfords' ultimate fate. He seems left forever in the other dimension, occupying the same shoggoth-like body that Pretorius inhabits.

Is he destined to spend eternity battling on some mental/physical level with Pretorius in this new bizarre form? Will he eventually be able to separate himself from the body they both inhabit? Would they stop fighting at some point and make peace with each other? Will their intelligences merge into a new, hybrid being?

too creepy.

[–] violet_yoshi 15 years ago

Perhaps you should read the H.P. Lovecraft story this was based off of. It might have more detail in it, I may download it to Kindle or something. I dunno, Kindle's too dark, probably buy the book..lol

[–] DarthSeether 15 years ago

yeah, I've read all the Lovecraft stories and this one was actually pretty brief. It serves as a great setup for the movie but doesn't take things much beyond the initial 10 minutes. The movie actually took the story in some pretty interesting (sexual and gory) directions.

I think the fusion of Pretorius and Crawford was one of the more interesting aspects of the movie. Wonder if they ever learned to get along :)

[–] TheChoccyStarfish 15 years ago

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[–] DarthSeether 14 years ago

That, my friend, is freaking hilarious!

[–] childer_orion700 14 years ago

You shouldn't dwell upon the thought or you may yourself be drawn into a dark world of eldritch horrors.

[–] DarthSeether 14 years ago

This is one of those movies where the hero sacrifices himself in such a way that is potentially a fate worse than death.

SPOILERS:

Other movies that come to mind are Event Horizon, where Captain Miller (Laurence Fishburn) in the end has to spend eternity in the Hell Dimension.

also the Prince of Darkness, where the woman who throws herself into that mirror to stop the anti-christ seems to be trapped in limbo forever (or maybe not...that ending was a bit ambiguous)

anyone know of any other movies where a major character ends up with a fate "worse than death"?

[–] dayvit78 8 years ago

Was he really the hero? I mean in both senses...
(1) Wasn't the main character Katherine? (2) Eating some dead brains and a few living eyeballs is not normally what a hero does.
:)

[–] Alfabeta 14 years ago

It is presumed that the bomb destroyed the Crawford/Pretorius mutant in our world and therefore it is dead.

She is unfortunately probably a basket case after all the horrors she saw (a very Lovecraftian way for a main character to end up) and even if she gets better, the machine is destroyed, the men who built it are dead, the cop who saw the creatures is dead and there is no way left for her to prove that she isn't nuts. Since she can't explain how else the Crawford and others died, they'll think she went crazy and blew them up with the bomb. If she's very lucky and lies that she did kill them, maybe she'll get out of an asylum in a decade. A fate close to her father's.

[–] Herreken 14 years ago

Alfabeta, I was thinking the same thing: that the Crawford/Pretorius thing died in the explosion. But did the explosion destroy the resonator and The Body at the same time? If the resonator was destroyed even a milisecond before everything else, then I think The Body would have been transported back to The Beyond.

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[–] Alfabeta 14 years ago

The resonator was at that point nearly indestructible, since Pretorius had enough mental power to make it run even after they've cut the electric wires that were juicing it. The only way to destroy the machine at that point was to kill the Pretorius mutant. This is of course pure speculation, but I saw it that way.