If the body had been wrapped in plastic and buried under concrete would there be maggots? There have to be flies to lay the maggots and, i'm not a forensic expert, but would the maggots still be alive? Don't even maggots need air to live? And I'm sure they were wriggling when we saw them.
Of course, i don't know how long the body had been buried there or where it had been kept earlier. Any CSIs reading this??
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Maggots don't 'come from' rotting flesh. Doyou think maggots are always hiding inside us and they come out when we die??? No. They are the larvae of flies. Flies lay eggs on dead flesh and the eggs turn into maggots (which then turn into flies).
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"Maybe I should go alone"
- Quint, Jaws.
That's exactly what I've been wondering about when I've seen the film. A body wrapped in plastic buried within concrete, and nevertheless so many maggots? And those critters didn't only seem to be very numerous but also very well fed up - were they to become flies or huge mutant monster insects?!
It's a fact that flies instantly begin to lay their eggs on a human as soon as he is dead and forensics therefore often determine the specific time of death (when it's not clear) by studying the state of growth of the biggest maggots. But could there be that many of them and also that fattened in this particular case?
A very tasteful question - anyone still hungry? :-P.
Just because he was wrapped in plastic doesn't mean there were tears somewhere in the plastic.
shareactually he wasnt burried in concrete he was burried under concrete he was burried then they poored concrete over him so yes there would still be maggots
sharelol I knew there was a reason why I wanna be cremated when I die!!
I'm gonna die unless you kill me!
Maybe the boathouse wasn't the original burial location. The body could have been moved at some point.
shareYea! Thumbs up for cremation i dont want to be buried rotting away getting eaten away by some damn maggots give my ass cremation!
shareAll this for a "scene" that doesn't even last a full second!
I remember when ABC (or whoever) would air this movie annually on a Sunday night in mid-November, that split-second was the one me & my hooligan friends always looked forward to.
"Blah blah, sweaty fat dude. Blah blah, stupid kid. Blah blah, boring lawyers...
How soon until they show the dead guy?!?!?"