Scene that makes no sense


I think it's time to discuss the scene I always thought never made much sense. Given the internal logic of the movie, of course, since a film about atomic vampires already fails the logic of credulity. :) But, even within the film itself, I've always found one scene to not make a whole lot of sense. That scene is the one where Sheila hears a noise upstairs, goes up, and finds a bloody knife imbedded in her latest sculpture.


This implies that there's a vampire in the house already. So, why didn't it get Sheila then and there? In fact, why did 2 vampires wait for another victim to show up before attacking? Where did the vampire go after stabbing the sculpture? Where did the blood come from? Plus, surely, a vampire wouldn't leave behind that much.


I do have one explanation that can pass a "logic" test. That what we saw wasn't real. It was a vision of disaster, like the one she talked about when Sheila first shows up in the movie. So, the scene was seen from her POV.


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I love this post for so many reasons. As if this is the only scene is this hilarious movie that didn't make any sense.

But to answer your question - I think it was horrible writing or a bad cut of the film. Then they realized, oh - we need to go back and tell her story. Then she randomly gets infected before her husband comes home - even though she had a gun that apparently she never used.

"I like the taste of flavor" Me

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Maybe the sculpture stabbing zombie is the same one who started the lawnmower in the back yard and let it just roll around on its own.

I say throw a scalpel at it!

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That lawnmower moving around by itself was a good creepy touch. The fact that these zombies could menace without being seen gives this film an extra dimension over sheer mindless zombiism.

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