Did he cut the head off?


I only saw him easily picking the head up from the car. Was she decapitated in the accident? If so, how come when the head is waking up she mutters something like, "there is fire here, is hot here"

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>Was she decapitated in the accident?

Yes. She was only remembering things.

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It's strange, then, that just before he reaches the car, her hand rises up through the flames and then sinks again. Hard to do when you don't have a head connected.

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Animating the hand and arm may not require a head, only fire burning the central nervous system.

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there are reflexes and unreleased nergy in our body evne after death. it is true that in real life sometimes bodies start twiching in morgue due to dieing nerves causing the contractions releasing the energy it was left over since the brain died.

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The problem is that there is significant period of time after she's dead and he takes the head. I don't know how long impulses last after death. It could just be a plot device
Better yet, I doubt a brain would survive long enough for him to carry it back to his lab.

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the twitching impulses can happen days after. they happen even after burial in fact, although rarely. the brain dies within 6-7 minutes without oxygen, so that was obviously changed to make this game work.

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i think he cut it off. he knew he could save her burned body but might have a chance with the head...
so maybe it was partly severed, but clearly he did some dirty work to get it out of there.

man that is creepy.

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Clearly, he just reaches into the burning wreckage, quickly wraps the head in his jacket, and takes it out.

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Yes. You can also tell he really isn't carrying a head; there's nothing in his jacket.
Good thing, too, all that blood gushing out of her neck would've left a trail to his weekend hideaway home......


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Obviously, he didn't cut the head off because they show him simply reaching in and grabbing it with nothing in his hands to cut with. Also, she doesn't speak while in the car (the lines you mention come later, when she wakes up). However, her hand is moving and I'm not buying that it was some nervous system nonsense. The answer is simple. The chick was so damn hardcore that she ripped her own head off with her left hand, wrapped it in the jacket, and handed it to the doc.

Now I'm waiting for a reply by someone who actually took that seriously by mistake.

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In the print that I saw he definitely just reaches into the car and picks up the head. People are often decapitated in high-speed car crashes as in the case of Jayne Mansfield.

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Jayne Mansfield was not decapitated. Her bloody wig came off in the crash and landed in the road, giving witnesses the impression that she had been.

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