Re-watching this for the first time and I completely forgot about this opening sequence. Does it have any significance to the main plot of the movie or is it just a red herring to spook people unaware that they're about to watch a comedy?
shareThe beginning of the movie was the end of the movie. Where the reporter and her cameraman are killed by Chad. They show Chad's face at the beginning but it was charred from the house exploding so you couldn't quite tell who it was.
shareHuh, I'll have to re-watch that again, the girl didn't look like the reporter to me at all.
shareYes, re-watch it. It makes it pretty clear that the reporter and cameraman murder happened 3 days after the college kids head to the woods. And when you re-watch it, you'll clearly recognize Chad as the one who looks in the camera at the beginning.
share... all well and good, but Chad is pretty dead at the end of the movie.
I like the intro thing, but I don't actually think it's a "real part of the movie."
He's not dead at the end. It looks like it when he falls out of the barn, but in the next scene the reporter or someone says "they haven't found his body" or something to that effect, so he is still out there.
shareHe's not dead at the end. It looks like it when he falls out of the barn, but in the next scene the reporter or someone says "they haven't found his body" or something to that effect, so he is still out there.
Chad isn't dead. He's a villain in a horror movie (a spoof, at that); he's got nine lives.
shareNo, Chad is not dead at the end. You even hear the reporter say "The body of the killer has not been recovered." Implying that he didn't die from the fall and fled into the woods.
Don't claim to speak the truth when you can't even keep the facts straight.
Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!
That's what I sorta thought happened, but I wasn't sure. Thanks, al.
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar and doesn't.
I saw it as a parody of the beginning of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
shareWow I totally forgot about the opening scene when I finished the movie. I was expecting him to come back or something, but then the credits rolled. This is an even better way of handling it!
shareIt ties in with the ending....
Prof. Farnsworth: Oh. A lesson in not changing history from Mr. I'm-My-Own-Grandpa!