was the, 'trunk full of crabs and a dead body' all in Julie's mind?

I doubt it, since she didn't know Max had been killed. It's a stretch, but perhaps he put everything on a piece of tarp so he could put it in and take it out more easily. We also don't know how far from the road Helen's house was, Julie only stopped because she heard a noise. And the killer was probably following her, so when she got out he decided to mess with her mind and remove everything.

It doesn't really make sense, I believe this scene was added later to make it more suspensful.

thats all possible. maybe (SPOILERS BELOW),










just watched part 2 and maybe Ben Willis son helped him clean the trunk out in part 1. two people could do it in time possibly

Has to be. It was on a main road in broad daylight and she was only gone a couple of minutes. Like the killer is going to clean up the scene in front of traffic in a couple of minutes. I think it was meant to be real, but the only way that it makes any sense at all is if you take it as one of Julie's vivid dreams.🐭

It sure seems like it, I mean how fast can you clean up a trunk with a dead body and crabs all over? Kind of like when Barry gets killed on the balcony and when they go up there is no blood or anything around? Lol

I never got the impression it was in her mind... just seems typical of movies of this type in the mid 90s where these things happened and while they are unlikely, you're just supposed to go along with it.

I know it's a different genre but I read an interview with the creator of "She's All That" about the ridiculousness of casting a beautiful actress, putting glasses on her, and then expecting viewers to believe that all the other characters think she's ugly. He says that's just what movies were like in the 90s and you either accepted it or you didn't.

It's pretty lame, but hey. At least in a slasher like IKWYDLS you can suspend you disbelief a bit. So even if it's a bit unrealistic that the killer would have cleaned all that up, it's not completely outside the realms of possibility, so just go with it.

The movie doesn’t go down the route of characters hallucinating so we have to assume it was real, but it’s absurd to think that nobody in a suburban area would see a very large man open a trunk, pull out a corpse and a pile of live crabs, hide them, then clean up and replace everything, leaving no odour.

It’s just sloppy writing.

Doubt it, Julie didn’t know about Max being dead. Either Ben or Will cleared the body out while she was away.