I'm guessing to hide his identity...but the detective seemed to know who he was anyway. Was it to make sure he was hospitalized instead of jailed? Seems like an awfully painful and horrific thing to do.
shareI'm guessing to hide his identity...but the detective seemed to know who he was anyway. Was it to make sure he was hospitalized instead of jailed? Seems like an awfully painful and horrific thing to do.The acid was to protect from being traced back to Abby, but I agree with you -- it really bugged me when the police officer already had his sketch.
The acid was to protect from being traced back to Abby, but I agree with you -- it really bugged me when the police officer already had his sketch.
Well at least they only had a crappy sketch from the boys in the car.
shareThe sketch came from neighbors at the housing complex, to be precise, through follow-up police interviews. And yes, it was a crappy sketch.
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This remake carried forth a few elements from the original movie (too many, for some; not enough, for others). This was one of them.
Indeed, it made little sense. Like, fingerprints was old news, and I don't remember him burning his pinkies off. And genetic testing was mere months away - police forces were already freezing tissues, to be ready for it.
There were going to be no secrets.
But, it was a cool, horrific scene, I guess.
One thing, we had a discussion here about blood banking for Abby, and how she and her dad might not know about it. Dousing himself with acid plays into that ignorance of modern technologies.
I still think she should at least "try" a bag 'o' blood to see how it works for her! 😁
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"genetic testing was mere months away" is only useful if your DNA on file, sure they might be able to get his DNA but nothing to compare it against.
shareInterest fact though that they knew the science was coming and were collecting samples for some time before they could use it.
sharestill unless he had been caught and questioned by the police for an earlier offence they still wouldn't have his DNA.
shareCorrect. But what I meant was that they were collecting DNA from crime scenes. From what we saw - and he was supposed to have been well-practiced at the point this movie played out - he wasn't very careful. A plastic garbage bag wasn't exactly an effective "body condom". (Great scene though)
Just FYI, I wrote a fan-fic sequel, and there are others here who did the same, where the follow-up police investigation played a major role.
But in the end, it didn't matter about the "father" character, because he lobbed himself out a window, to terminate that line of leads. And the only character that made a connection to Abby got himself chewed up in the bathroom scene!
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He was trying to change his face so as to hide his identity. Not a clever move given there were many other ways to identify him, however he dedicated his life to serving a child vampire. Probably not the brightest guy.
I gave this a 9 and the original an 8.
The better question is WHY would you put a spoiler like that right in the title of your post?!
Is this your first time on the internet??
Why would you go to a discussion board if you haven't already seen the movie?
shareit is not a spoiled to ask about the first scene of a movie
shareYes it is.
If you just read a few more posts below your own you would have seen that Hal-9010 explains it perfectly. So I'll just copy and paste what he said.
The opening scene shows us an unidentified man who is horribly disfigured and guilty of something nasty
Who is he? Why is he disfigured? Was he burned? Was he tortured? What did he do ? Heck, perhaps it was a monster? Guess we have to watch the movie to find out, how exciting....
YES, the OP spoiles the movie a bit with this headline... the OP tells us it is the father, second the OP tells us he disfigured himself and thirdly the OP tells us what caused it and that it happend mysteriously....
Why put a spoiler in as the title? Idiotic.
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This is not a spoiler -- it is quite literally the opening scene of the movie.
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The opening scene shows us an unidentified man who is horribly disfigured and guilty of something nasty
Who is he? Why is he disfigured? Was he burned? Was he tortured? What did he do ? Heck, perhaps it was a monster? Guess we have to watch the movie to find out, how exciting....
YES, the OP spoiles the movie a bit with this headline... the OP tells us it is the father, second the OP tells us he disfigured himself and thirdly the OP tells us what caused it and that it happend mysteriously....
Either way, good conduct should try and avoid spoilers in headlines and secondly mention a spoiler alert in the first line of a post if it has any. Not complicated and better for all
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Well, this my son is poor execution. Watch the original for better execution
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