What was the deal with the dog?
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.
The dog wasn't representing anything but a dog that the writers thought would be cool to have in some scenes. You see, in order for any animal or character to mean anything profound, the writers and director s have to be deep thinkers. The people that wrote and directed this movie are not deep thinkers. They came up with some ideas and scenes in their heads that they thought would be cool whether they made sense or not and whether they followed real human behavior or not.
They left a lot of things unexplained and open for imagination because they probably didn't have an explanation or imagination to flesh out the story. For all we know the dog could belonged to the woman before she was zombified, it could've felt protective of her because it knew she was "not well", it could've been after the guy because it was guarding the place, or it could've been there because the filmmakers like filming dogs. I think it's the latter based on how the movie was written; just stupidly. To me, it seemed like it was written by teenagers. Very superficial.
Like someone else had said, so much could've been done with this premise and material if it were done by more creative or talented people. I wish they had put as much thought into the movie and reasons for the dog scenes as the people here have. Lol
Wow, lol. I asked this question 5 years ago. Almost forgot I posted it until recently. All I've got to say is some of you people out there are some serious deep thinkers when it comes to watching movies. That's all well and good, believe me. I barely remember this movie anymore, but I'm sure the whole dog thing probably has a very simple explanation. I gotta say though, I am tired of the use of dogs, cats, etc.. in horror films as some sort of pre-cursor for things to come. It's overused and cliche'. Can't we just leave the animals alone already? Thanks for all of your answers though. Much appreciated.
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