This movie is so pedestrian I'm embarrassed to even ask this but what did the 100 year old ghost kids story have to do with the 20 year old ghost kids story? They told the whole thing about the town a hundred years ago in the beginning and then dropped it for the mercury poisoning?
And of course the kid wouldn't die. Kids rarely die in movies these days. Nothing remotely interesting, entertaining or scary about this one.
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I was wondering the same thing. At first I thought I had missed something. I was trying to connect the 2 stories. But you're right. They just dumped one story for the other.
shareThe stories were unrelated. One was used to scare you and one was the real story...the more boring, typical revenge plot was the real story.
The movie tried to be a drama and horror movie....neither worked.
To sum it all up would be : Kids that had mercury poisoning came back for revenge on the family that covered it up. Basically about it.
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Yea I figure the fire story was made up by the Harriman group and the poisoning was the reasoning for the bandages. Otherwise the fire kids wanted revenge on a guy not born for another 150 whatever years. Only answer I can think of
shareThe area has a history of children dying from abuse by authority figures. It haunts the atmosphere of the town. We are meant to think that the tragic history created a supernatural environment where the later victims could come back to seek vengeance, justice and peace. The stories are not unrelated. They're connected by history. I'm not saying it's original or especially well done, but there is a link.
shareCan anyone help explain this?:
So the first Paper Mill caused mercury poisoning and killed the children. The company covered it up, and told the parents that the kids died of the flu or some other disease. They lied about the cause of death to cover their profits. So far, I get that.
But when the kids were dead, wouldn't the company or the parents bury them properly? How did the corpses end up in the sewer at the abandoned mill? The father obviously hid the bodies there, but what the hell could he have possibly told the parents??
"Oh your kids died from the flu...and by the way, we "lost" their bodies"
No, the company never told the parents the children were dying. The mother told Scott Speedman that her son, who died 20 years ago, was very sick but one day the kid went outside and was never seen again. Apparently all the other sick kids disappeared the same way. People in town suspected the town's ghost story/legend of the burned children had something to do with it but in actuality, the Harriman doctor and Julia Stile's father, Stepehn Rhea, kidnapped them and buried them in the old paper mill.
The beginning of the movie showed the doctor trying to get rid of the evidence before the children's ghost killed him. Before the doctor was killed, he was on the phone with a man urging him to hurry up. We assume later on that it was Stephen Rhea who was on the other end of that phone conversation.