Fungus spores can be carried through the air
The main characters were not wearing suits.
*does some complex math*
They would all have been infected by the fungus and turned to hungires...
This movie just had way too many inconsitancies...
Im willing to watch a movie that establishes rules outside this realm, but when the movie breaks its own rules and leaves plothole after plothole, it brings me back to reality and I lose interest. :(
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Did you not notice the kind of main part of the plot of the second half of the film which was that the fungus had not yet gotten to the point in its life cycle where it released spores? And when it did it would kill everyone. And that led to the ending of the film..?
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The fungus was in their brains...they would contantly be exhaling the spores - they would be airborne - thats how spores work.
shareNo, the spores in this work in the same way as cordyceps, which is infection, fruit body growth, spore expulsion.
The film is set in the middle partof that cycle. The fruiting bodies grow out of congregations of zombies (for some reason).
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Sorry, that's not how spores work. The regular hungries and hungry kids weren't producing spores. The spores were produced by the fruiting hungries (inside those pods), and the pods only opened to release the spores at the end once they were burned.
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No. Wrong. The fungus had a number of cycles. Initially the only way the fungus could go from one person to another was via an infected bite. NO SPORES EXISTED. Only the LAST cycle involved Spores.
shareGlenn Close's character only briefly mentions this as the cause of "the plague" in the film. But it has much more detail in the book.
It actually does exist in nature.
Look it up folks! It is absolutely fascinating how it works on the host.
As creepy as hell. Honest.
Yea I did a good amount of digging, reading and checking out pics of the Cordyceps fungus and it's the stuff of nightmares indeed. We're very lucky that it's only known to happen to the insect world, if ever a day came where it jumped to humans this film could easily become a realistic story. Creepiest stuff I've come across in quite a while.
shareCordyceps isn't airborne, it spreads host to host. Don't you look silly?
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