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Questions about Reese (Spoiler)

posted 9 years ago by DrmWmn
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This was sort of discussed in another thread, but no one went into great detail.

When they saw it was Reese's dad who had the original of and because he called in, Charlie had to fill in and that accident happened. Got it.

But why? Why take revenge on Reese?

Was Reese's father the reason Charlie died? Not just because he called in and Charlie had to fill in for him. More specifically, did Reese's dad break-in to the theater the night before and try to destroy the set, like Reese did, but didn't finish and called-in sick instead? That could be why the trap door didn't work the way it was intended to work.

Do you think this is probably what happened or do you think it was just a coincidence?

I'm thinking his father messed with the set, because it seemed almost like a "like father like son" type thing when Pfeiffer caught Reese at the school trying to destroy the set, don't you think?

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[–] blurredoasis 9 years ago

Sometimes the worst thing you can do to an enemy is not kill them, but take away something precious to them. I don't know if Reese's dad did anything to the set, but I don't think it really matters. The mother and daughter have been living with a pain for 20 years that they wanted Reese's father to feel now.

[–] DrmWmn 9 years ago

I guess my curiosity is this then:

How did Pfeiffer know that Reese was going to show up to the theater the night before the show???

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[–] B_Light 9 years ago

She could have easily overheard the conversation or maybe she really did see their car in the parking lot. Or Charlie told Pfifer somehow

[–] duelmasterjay 8 years ago

Unless Rick knew what would happen, like mess with the stage it can't really be revenge. He backs out. U don't have to do something u don't want to

[–] cesarecesarini 8 years ago

I don't think it's revenge in pure meaning. Charlie is just a vengeful ghost filled with anger and rage for no reason, which is often the case with ghosts bound to a specific physical location, so wants to kill anyone around there (he killed even the policeman at the end just for calling his name) to attract people's attention, but Reese happened to get to play the same role as his, so he is more fixated on Reese, so his father being the guy for whom Charlie had to fill in should be considered just a coincidence, because if not, why wouldn't Charlie have just killed him for 18 (or 19? I dunno) years? And what if Reese had no interest in theater and therefor he wouldn't have joined the play? That makes no sense.

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[–] Rastaruca40 8 years ago

Phieffer mentions to Reece that she was sorry for making him join the play. It was my understanding that they were secretly dating, because his friends were jerks about him liking her. It was part of Mother and Daughter and Charlies plan of revenge perhaps? That's how Reece ended up reprising Dads role.

[–] cesarecesarini 8 years ago

Thanks for your input. Yup, I understand the filmmakers' intention that they want us to take it as a revenge story of Charlie, his GF and their daughter. What I wanted to point out is that the revenge aspect itself doesn't work in this story to begin with. If there were some reason why it had to be 20 years after his death and his ghost was able to show up only in the auditorium, it might not have been so ridiculous. But then lots of questions like why Reese's father didn't mention to his son him being in the play for the same role 20 years ago or why no one in the town knew about Charlie's girlfriend still remain though. Oh, and what if Reese had no interest in his daughter? Did Charlie's design this plan after the daughter began to go out with him?

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[–] Rastaruca40 8 years ago

Yeah it was just lazy writing imo. They could of made it out that Reeces Father had something to do with Charlie being killed (like he tampered with the props or something) and then the whole ghost revenge thing could be justified.

[–] ldlamb74 8 years ago

Ghosts and deranged people don't need "justification", that makes it even scarier.

[–] DevilYouKnow 7 years ago

I was laughing at that. Oh no someone called in sick and then something bad happened.

It wasn't a direct correlation. The fact that the kids were so shocked by it had me rolling. Like oooh revenge because someone had a cold or played hooky or something...

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[–] CognacJacquet 7 years ago

I think Pfeifer was probably obsessed with the play because of her father (and possibly her crazy mother nurtured that obsession) and pushed to stage it.
Reese happened to fall in love with her.
The combination of play, daughter & son of castmate was enough to bring Charlie into a state of vengeful haunting.

And then poor Pfeifer cracked up at the end - ran home to tell her mother what happened, and then lost her marbles.