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Creepy, possessed little girl with a bag over her head

posted 12 years ago by jeffyoung1
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Imdb cleans out posts when those get too old. Back in 2009 and 2010 there was some back-and-forth discussion on the creepy little possessed girl with the bag over her head, grunting and growling ominously as she banged a long stick on the hood of a car that the desert diner survivors were trying to drive away.

There was no explanation in the movie but a plausible one exists on the Q & A board. The explanation is that normal human beings were being possessed while doing normal daily activities. The little girl may have been involved in a, break-the-pinata game, which might account for the bag over her head and the long stick she still carried. That sounds reasonable enough to me.

It sounds more plausible that the explanaton I invented. My theory back in late 2009 (now vanished off imdb) was that the little girl was possessed by a higher-ranking angel and possibly her face was damaged during or after the possession. Possibly the angel felt the need to conceal its human little girl face for some unexplained reason. The horde of possessed humans were temporarily frozen while the holy baby was in their midst. But the little girl was only partially...more like, held back as a vampire before a cross. The possessed little girl could still move about and vocalize but was held back by the presence of the holy baby. We movie-goers at the time in the theater expected the little girl to try to attack the fleeing human survivors, or try to rally the temporarily immobilized possessed humans. This was a red herring the director threw at the audience to scare us.

[–] starwolf 12 years ago

Wow. You put a lot more thought into this than I was willing to give the movie by that point.

I didn't even wonder about her, but by then I was already disconnecting from the film because I was disliking it so much.

Interesting analysis. I wonder if any of this passed through the director's head or if he just thought it would be a creepy image.

And who does a piñata with a bag over their head? We always tied blind folds on. Serious question - do people do that?

[–] jeffyoung1 12 years ago

You're right about the pinata game. As far as my memory serves, the kids typically had a blindfold. Perhaps the director deliberately chose the bag for its scarier, more creepy effect, which likens back to other horror flicks involving bags over heads like, 'The Orphanage'.

[–] koffeenkreame41-1 12 years ago

^^Agreed, it was very eerie.

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[–] classiccool 11 years ago

Glad you posted this. There seemed to be a disconnect with the unexplained appearence of the girl.

[–] manjodude 10 years ago

Thanks man, interesting point of view. I liked the movie, perhaps wished for a more thrilling ending.

[–] first-things-first 10 years ago

Your theory is good. But what if children don't understand fear, so they continue. Or adults do understand, and they are controlled. The scene is one of the creepiest in the film.

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