Why was that dog down there? Why was he trying to protect the zombie chick? Did the dog seem out of place to anyone else?
and when youre down here fatboy you'll float too.
This popped in my head, maybe the dog wasn't there to guard her so much as he was there to keep her from leaving!
shareWe talked as we watched this and decided that the dog may have just wandered into the building somehow, though it looked a bit unnatural. It was also a type of guard dog and it was an empty bldg.
shareIf the dog was simply a stray that wandered in the building, why would the director/producers put him in the film? He had to be there for some type of reason. Also, stray dogs are rarely aggressive, unless they're starving or protecting something. And I immediately noticed his resemblance to the god Anubis, so there is some symbolism there.
Or, maybe he simply used to be her dog when she was alive, and was still loyal to her?
I assumed dog was simply hungry and saw dead girl as a piece of meat(since dead girl smelt rotten). Try to to take away the little food a stray dog has and it will turn aggressive pretty quickly. IMHO the dog scene was simply there to show us what dead girl was capable of.
If there was in fact some symbolism there and dog was supposed to be anubis, a god, how could dead girl bite it's head off ?
simple plot device. To let the boys run deeper into the asylum, and increase tension when they are in there (every time there is a sound some may think ooh the dog, every time they walk down there some may think oh the dog, or you may just forget the dog entirely and it comes up as another change of pace jolt when it comes into the room and is killed...
There is a chance others have found themselves down there and either left after a cursory poke around or been chased away since the dog, who i think is a stray, chased them off. Their initial wanderings may have ended before finding the closed door to the area containing the deadgirl, if the dog was not there to scare them.
As you say rarely aggressive, this could have been one. for all you know it was an attack dog before becoming a stray or could have been protecting a litter of puppies nearby. For all we know it had zero to do with deadgirl.
I don't know where the incarnations of Anubis of Cerberus, are being brought in.
making a forest out of 3 or 4 trees here.
He wasn't "protecting" her, as he probably didn't even know of the Deadgirl's existence, since she was behind a rust-shutted door. The doctors probably left him there to stop her from escaping/someone from freeing her. After reading some comments here, I started to believe the Deadgirl actually realized she had some chances of eventually be set free through the boys, and killed the dog when she saw he was getting in the way.
shareI liked reading everyone's ideas, but I think you're giving the writer too much credit. Animals are in horror movies for one reason: when they are violently killed, we get sad =( The dog was probably just there to add to the body count.
shareI always thought that the original owner of the dead girl left the dog there to guard the deadgirl so no one would find her. Something probably happened to the original owner which is why he never shows up.
shareI always thought that the original owner of the dead girl left the dog there to guard the deadgirl so no one would find her. Something probably happened to the original owner which is why he never shows up.
The dog was another creation of the mad scientist who created the Deadgirl and actually had been given Sarah Jessica Parker's brain.
in total honesty, when it shows up for the last time...i was totally expecting to see it start having sex with her. the movie just seemed to be going that way. or maybe i just need help. lol
shareYou mean Deadgirl and the dog having sex? LOL!
Maybe in Deadgirl II...
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the Bread will walk the Earth."
it was Zoltan, Hound of Dracula
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Let's remember that it is the first appearance of the dog that drives JT and Rickie towards the Deadgirl (and it was a very unnatural path, involving tight crawl spaces and such). Also, when JT tells Rickie about the first time he raped/killed the dead girl, he says all she did was growl and bite at him "like some wild dog."
The thematic tie of the deadgirl to the dog is established right from the start. Later, both the dog and the deadgirl pass by Rickie instead of attacking him (the dog passes him to get to get to JT, and the deadgirl passes him in favor of escape). But, sadly, likely other thematic elements in the movie, this connection is left far too ambiguous to be interesting. I can't make heads or tails of way deadgirl killing the dog is important.
This film had a lot of balls in the air, but didn't quite finish itself off.
"I'm not gonna let you rob this nation's children of even ONE glass of wholesome nutritious milk!"
Ninja_GaiDaniel. Agreed. Seemed to share some thematic elements with "The Woman" (2011), but the latter's superior execution resulted in a much better film.
shareI interpreted the dog scene 2 different ways.
1. She liked JT because he spent the most time down there, having little brain function as a zombie the abuse didn't register, so she was protecting him. He was face to face with her before the dog jumped up there, she could have just as easily ripped him apart instead if she wanted to.
2. The dog knew she was evil and was protecting him because he was dangerously close to her face before he jumped up there.
Based on how sick the movie was I would not be surprised if the dog was using the girl for the same purpose as those sick teenagers did. In other words they invaded his territory and usurped of his fück toy O.o
sharejt or whatever said "its no guard dog" but my feeling was that the dog was placed there as a guard by whomever placed the infant baby incubators in front of the door. Who ever chained her up. It was a junk yard dog to keep intruders away.
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