Why did he lead the family into their deaths by giving them the "shortcut" through the Hills?
He saw the girl getting her dog in his room, then he looks at his bag of jewels, then (just as the family is leaving) he tells them take a left at the next fork.
Why did he do it?
He was a sicko. The mutants gave him souvenirs of the families they killed.
shareI think he did it because when he saw her in his room, he assumed that she had rummaged through all the stuff and had found out what was going on and his involvement in the disappearances (she was acting really nervous only because he frightened her, but he thinks she has found out about him), so he did in order to keep his secret safe (although it was never in danger to begin with).
"Speak of the Devil, and He shall appear."
He gave tourists bad directions which led into the mutants territory, in exchange for the wallets, money, etc the mutants would retrieve from their corpses.
He eventually committed suicide out of guilt.
They left him alone and also gave him gifts in exchange for him luring in unsuspecting folks into their territory.
shareIt's not as well explained as in the original. In that version, it's revealed that the gas station owner sired the head of the mutant family, and left him out in the desert to die. The mutants developed a truce where they'd trade with him for supplies he's bring in from neighboring towns. Unfortunately, those towns had begun to fold up. Hence the mutants got more desperate.
In the original film the station owner is a coward for numerous reasons but he doesn't send them to their deaths. In fact he warns them away from the desert. In the remake, he does send them to their deaths out of fear he'd been discovered. There's also no indication that he had any relation to the mutant family.
Why did he lead the family into their deaths by giving them the "shortcut" through the Hills?Basically, it was to eliminate the possibility of the Carter family turning him in to law enforcement. Lynne's going into the back room with her seeing all the stuff he had there, put him in legal jeopardy, so it was safer to let the mutants have them. Dead men tell no tales and all that. share
He saw the girl getting her dog in his room, then he looks at his bag of jewels, then (just as the family is leaving) he tells them take a left at the next fork.
Why did he do it?
I think the gas station attendant made some kind of unholy deal with the mutants. He sent victims their way while the mutants gave him stuff like wallets and jewelry that they pillaged from their victims so the guy could keep himself afloat. It's also implied that the gas station attendant might have been related to them in some way.
I've been chasing grace/ But grace ain't easy to find
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