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Question (spoilers)

posted 6 years ago by OldG (625)
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Didn't they say that the Virgin (Dana) had to survive or die last... What would have happened if Dana was killed before the others? Wasn't that kind of a risky setup... I mean Dana could easily have been killed before any of the others... And what was the meaning of all the countries where the ritual failed and in Japan in was a success without any deaths? The ritual also failed in the US but here it seemed to have a consequence... Why didn't all the other failed 'rituals' cause the gods to rise?

[–] PaulStaud (11) 6 years ago

Virgin dying last....yes i think this was a risky point that you probably just have to overlook. But when the stoner was still alive, she did just about bite he bullet so they did flirt with this happening in the movie. I would've thought the people who watched this had some sort of way to know who was dead and alive still but I guess not.

Other rituals....I thought as long as one (from any country) worked the "gods" were appeased.

The other countries must also have different setups, I remember the Japanese one being inside an elementary school
classroom, not exactly where I would expect to find the fool (stoner) character unless the teacher was hitting the pipe before class. Maybe the person literally just had to be a fool, in which case I would argue the stoner wasn't since he was the only one to see through the whole thing at first (ironically because of his weed).

[–] OldG (625) 6 years ago

But didn't the ritual succeed in Japan? Then it shouldn't matter what happened in the US?

[–] PaulStaud (11) 6 years ago

I will have to watch again but I though i remembered seeing the Japanese girls all singing around the demon beating it, I believe they beat it, maybe I am forgetting something though.

[–] Crystal (534) 5 years ago

They beat the demon and so Japan did not succeed.

[–] Costumer (1786) 6 years ago

The archetypes in the other countries didn't match the ones in the US because the culture and stereotypes were different. In other words, in Japan there was not a jock, a virgin, a fool, etc. nor would those archetypes appease the ritual in Japan. The same applies to the other countries. The archetypes from those countries would not satisfy the ritual in the US.