What was the significance with that? I'm only 15 minutes into the film right now, but we're they planning on dropping concrete to bury them in the house's structure? It just doesn't seem like a logical place to keep 35+ corpses. People would be able to smell them close by after awhile. Anybody shed some light on this for me?
shareYou are right, it's not logical. Body fluids would be seeping through the walls since they aren't concrete and the odor would be noticeably obvious even outside the house.
Plus this incessant choice by filmmakers to have professional law enforcement agents wrenching and vomiting upon seeing bodies in various states of decay is unrealistic. Most cops have been exposed to many decomposing bodies in their careers and in my years in law enforcement I never saw any officer vomit upon seeing a deceased person. I dealt with many myself, from the fresh to ones who had been dead for some time and although the smell is awful, I never even came close to feeling the need to vomit.
Since you can't smell a movie I think it was an attempt to show how bad the house would smell after exposing all the corpses, not seeing the decomposing bodies. Sometimes truth is stranger then fiction as you can see from the link
http://www.ohio.com/news/investigators-to-tear-apart-walls-in-house-where-10-bodies-found-1.133236
Brolin explained that the house's they was hiding dead bodies in would eventually be rigged to explode or worse like the shed at the start of the movie,its a more realistic then you think as they can keep stuffing them into walls/floors/ceilings then burn or blow em up without leaving much evidence behind,alot more convenient then one day work needing to be done to a foundation uncovers what they don't want to be found. I know a few officers and some special ops that have dealt with that crap before and from the stories I've heard this movie is more realistic then most of em out there.
shareBrolin explained that the house's they was hiding dead bodies in would eventually be rigged to explode or worse like the shed at the start of the movie,its a more realistic then you think
I know a few officers and some special ops that have dealt with that crap before and from the stories I've heard this movie is more realistic then most of em out there.
John Wayne Gacey buried a whole bunch of young guys under his house. But that was up north where they have pier and beam foundations with a crawl space. Arizona houses would have a slab foundation reinforced with iron rebar buried in them to keep them from cracking due to shifting soil.
They could have buried them outside but the soil would have sunk giving burials away. If they were buried them further out they would have been dug up by varmints like coyotes.
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It really makes no sense at all.
By the time the drywall was back up, taped, mudded, sanded and painted, the stench would be so bad as to make the entire house uninhabitable.
Wrapping up the bodies with plastic, and duct tape probably does just enough to keep the stench down, and a good drywall job probably does the rest.
That place was probably never meant to be lived in - only a place to hid bodies, and the 1 guy there was the so called 'guard'.