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Why are the demons defeated so easily in this one??!! SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!

posted 12 years ago by arbino-man
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Ok, in the first two films the only way to take down a possessed was a head shot or a crushed head or something of that nature. In the first film the fat old lady is shot multiple times, but gets right back up a few seconds later.

However in this film it's not just head shots that take them out, but body shots as well. In this film they go down and stay down. They are very similar to the infected from 28 days later.

So my question is why did the creators change the possessed to being able to be taken down so easily?

Just watched this today and haven't followed what the creators may have said about this.

Oh, and I actually enjoyed this quite a bit.

[–] Pitster04 12 years ago

I was wondering why they seemed to move so much slower than the infected we've seen in the previous two movies. Some scenes looked like they were walkers from the older zombie classics!

It was a damn sled this whole time?!?

[–] arbino-man 12 years ago

Yeah, the infected in this film were much different than those in the first two films. I was just wondering if there was a story behind that.

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[–] arbino-man 12 years ago

Actually the one infected that was shot during the bus attack didn't get back up.

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[–] arbino-man 12 years ago

Yeah, she got up within a minute though. However, in the film the ones that are shot seem to stay down. In the end of the film the main actress gets shot multiple times (not in the head as far as I could see) and she slowly stopped moving.

I don't think her mom was shot in the head and she stayed down. It just seemed that the demons were much weaker in this one and that head shots were not the only things taking them down.

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[–] arbino-man 12 years ago

I'm talking about the fat old chick from the first film who got back up after about a minute.

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[–] dani-402-226868 12 years ago

In REC she is shoot by the young police officer and appears later on the movie attacking Manu who hits her two times with a hammer

in REC 2 she is shoot by Larra and got up in 2 seconds

scenes here http://youtu.be/UvKXFQ2788E

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[–] arbino-man 12 years ago

On another note, if they are possessed why is it that the only way to take them out is via head shot? They are not zombies?

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[–] jeff-starx 12 years ago

Even though I don't really consider this a true sequel, more of a spinoff, I always thought that these fallen angels (possessed, zombies, whatever you'd like to call them) were weaker because they were just simply too far from the original fallen angel and may not have been being as well controlled considering this film is going on at the same time as the first two.

Basically since they're all controlled by the one being, and that being had its hands full in the apartment complex (its first priority, getting itself out into the world to possibly make the infection even stronger as we see in the apartment)
but idk, just a theory

[–] DannX68 12 years ago

I thought they were weaker because they were demons being so close to a church. But yours is also plausible.

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[–] ilovegm 12 years ago

Being further away from the original host may also be a reason why they are weaker in this one.

[–] zevitorsantos 11 years ago

It must be related to the creature's strenght. When the old fat lady was knowcked down and then woke up, the Medeiros demon was still alive and lurking the attic.

Since she's the seed of everything, it must be like, no thing dies if she's alive. The first infected I saw being shot down and didn't woke up afterwards was Clara's mother (although she appears revived and frozen with the other infected in a deleted scene); we don't know if that happened before or after Angela/the demon inside Angela shot the corpse's head in the attic. The living corpse was shot, but the demon was still alive inside Angela, so it must have lost a bit of its power?

I think it's all connected.

In short, the infected must work the Medeiros demon in the same the horcruxes work to Voldemort.

Or it must be just part of the director's "initiative" to make everything different in this film, which ruined the [REC] continuity.