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Why keep them alive?
What was Rachel’s true intention?
Movie about guy who can’t leave a town
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Continued from above, didn’t know these had a word limit haha.
6- so the car stealing was probably done by the townspeople. And they also put away all the clothes and items of the tourists in the mine after they are mind warped to not raise suspicion. The sheriff probably had Ethan after he was mind warped the whole time, and only returned him to the family so they would stay on.
7- I think the graves also dug by the townspeople, to bury people the ancient evil can’t mind warp, like their minds are too strong, or people the ancient evil reject because they have an illness or something different about their DNA. Like the guy in the prison, he either applies to one of the above or just refuses to work with the evil.
8- it also explains how Ethan mysteriously vanished, and the sand storms - the ancient evil has taken root in the subterranean mines of the town, and it controls everything it touches - like it could have sunk Ethan in the sand.
Ultimately, it seemed like the whole plot was so vague because the writers/producers themselves had no idea who the bad guy was. Most movies like halfway through you at least get a glimpse of the enemy and have some idea to start from.
I know I’m late to this, but I just watched the movie and read all the replies on here and came up with a sort of theory that I think makes the most sense.
1- the enemy cannot be mutants, because while stealing cars and the graves seem very mutant/human motivated, paranormal stuff like the sand storms, Ethan disappearing and body swapping can’t be done by humans.
2- ergo, I think it has something to do with the Indian burial ground the town was built on. My theory is the neutron bomb awakened some sort of ancient evil that the Indians either created or worshipped. It was dormant and trapped in the mines, until the neutron bomb heated up everything and released it. It controls the town people, nature and everything in the area.
3- so the local townspeople, in 1948, came to find out about this evil after it consumed or mind warped everyone who lived in Weaver. So they made a pact with it - they would send tourists to Weaver in exchange for being allowed to carry on living.
4- the evil wants dominion over the Earth, so it takes the bodies of said tourists and possesses them. Or writes over them and turns them into slaves, so these mind warped people will continue to do its bidding and send more tourists to Weaver to be possessed/brain swapped. And the evil will continue to do this from town to town, until their numbers are so huge they can take over large cities.
5- I think this ancient evil is a single call organism that can infect many and those who are possessed/mind warped are all part of its larger consciousness, like a hive mind. Very much like the ancient evil in Dean Koontz’s Phantoms, which is called the Ancient Enemy and is described as an “amoebic shapeshifter”. So it can create and send out phantoms to capture tourists, like the thing that was chasing the mom in the mines and ran into the car at the end.
I think this is the most plausible theory, explains everything. Thoughts?
I’m 99% sure it was a movie. It was on a local TV channel’s movie night and I just happened to watch it
Omg this might just be it. The synopsis sounds like the movie I’m thinking of and the era/look of the movie is similar too. Though I don’t recall the movie having that many supernatural elements I saw in the trailer. Will watch it and hope it’s the one! Thanks!
Nope not In Fear, the movie I’m thinking of is older. Watched the trailer and read the plot. Thanks so much for your suggestions.
Don’t think so, the synopsis says they pick up a hitchhiker and don’t think that happened in this movie I saw. It was just one guy or a couple, not a family, trying to leave the town. Decade - my guess is the 90s or 00s, definitely not a recent movie. Thanks heaps!
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