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What the hell!?

posted 17 years ago by revide_it
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Okay, I have watched a whole lot of horrorflicks in my days, and today I got ahold of this old gem, which I've never seen before. The feeling I got from watching this was that it was so...unfair I guess the word is.

Usually the ghosts in movies have been exposed to something unjust which they need to deal with before they can move on.

Now...WHAT THE HELL had the bad guys been exposed of? They killed a little kid and traumatized his brother half to death. Now they can take physical shape, kill people however they want and also become invisible. All because they want revenge of the kid who THEY did something unjust to.

Is it just me that found everything very unfair? I have never responded like this when watching a horrorflick, but this one just rubbed me the wrong way I guess.

[–] marigenbeltran 12 years ago

I agree with you :-) Also, why did they get in the car when the train was coming? If they would have just get close to the wall of the tunnel, wouldn't they have survived?

[–] Scrap_Iron 11 years ago

Split-second decision made in the heat of the moment.

Lawson apparently didn't want to leave his car, and none of the other greasers realized the key had been stolen until it was too late.

You can hear them arguing over the location of the car key as the train bears down on them.

The sidekick Mueller was obviously the only one who figured it out in time and got himself the hell out of there.

I regards to the main topic, in the original short story it's vaguely implied that the ringleader of the greasers (Vinnie in the source material) may have possessed some inkling of the supernatural as he claims to have put "the hex" on young Jim.

[–] HellboundHero 11 years ago

I don't really understand why all ghosts have to be good people who were wronged. There wouldn't be much of a horror genre if only altar boys came back from the dead.

[–] jackiefoxybrown 10 years ago

Agreed! I watched the movie with my mom a few times and even though its fiction, the premise of the film burns my biscuit.
Now, when Patrick Swayze died in Ghost and came back for closure...I understood that. But these big losers coming back to life with so much powers infuriated me.

[–] fun-niji 10 years ago

Read the replies *sigh* - particularly the first couple. In a way this movie was working on the same principals as Nightmare on Elm Street. The bullies got killed unexpectedly by Jim stealing the keys to their car that got them stuck on the tracks and killed by the train.
Them coming back is another closure for their death. Not as nice as Patrick Swayze's Ghost but still the same reason but dealt with differently.

[–] typeonegativevevo 10 years ago

i love this movie! evverything about it

[–] banditsroost 9 years ago

That's just the way Steven King is. Who is writes about a clown in a drain?

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[–] doodoohead 9 years ago

I think that Stephen King in his youth must have been really scared of some greaser gang around his hometown. There are evil greasers in nearly all of his books.

[–] banditsroost 9 years ago

That's the way Steven King is. You never know what to expect. Creepshow is my favorite.

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[–] Rainey-Dawn 8 years ago

I see these guys as evil vengeful spirits - just as evil and vengeful punks/bullies as they were while they were alive. Not all ghosts are good: some good ghosts, some bad ghosts - as they were while alive.

For me, it's like any other demonic ghost story - this one is just told differently. I really don't see the problem with these evil guys coming back to haunt Jim... (it's just to give us a short story & movie version was made).

It was unjust for Jim... but they were punks/bullies to Jim and Wayne while alive. They wanted revenge on Jim for not giving them the 12 cents as they wanted and Jim took their car keys in the madness as the train approached to kill them. They are still punks in the "afterworld".

Just my take on it.

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