The Kid Is A Psychopath


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In this movie there is not one character that is likeable. In particular the main child Seth has the traits of a psychopath. He sees his friend being kidnapped by the car creeps and tell no one about it. He can relate to the corpse of a baby and has conversations with it. Later on the "vampire" woman gets into the same car of killers and he doesn't warn her.
I imagine it would be too late now but if they did make a sequel they could show how he grew up into a serial killer.

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Have you even considered that he may have disliked/hated her because she was killing his brother assumingly because she was a "vampire"?

I don't believe she was a real vampire anyway.
She walked in the sun, and those 'serialkillers' could never have killer her if she really was one. I didn't see a wooden steak or her head chopped off.

"Gar nicht so übel, du kleine Schlampe. Man sieht sich immer zweimal, Kleine."

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I'd say he was both psychopathic and psychotic (for his delusions).

I perused some earlier posts and surprised that no one brought these points up:

Remember what Seth did to the frog at the beginning? What did his mother do to him with the cups of water? Seth's father had a vampire obsession, and Seth did as well. One sorta has to wonder whether his father was also a serial killer before the self-immolation.

Finally, there's the issue of dissociation, which is common with psychiatric disorders. The mentally ill person perceives everyone else as crazy/eccentric, while he she engages in either ghastly or abhorrent behavior as if it's an everyday norm.



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The whole film is told from Seth's POV, so it's an untrustworthy narrator, the teens in the black car don't exist, its all Seth.

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And don't forget that after seeing his father burn alive he stood there watching the flames, blowing at the embers on the wind and enjoying the spectacle. Hardly a normal reaction.



I prefer Imaginality to reality.

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Not one character that is likeable? Is that required for a movie to be good? Isn't it possible to find the story of a psychopathic boy (if he is a psychopath) interesting?

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