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Walrus suit

posted 6 months ago by OratiaGlake (1234)
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I may be overthinking this… but why not, eh?

I can’t quite work out why the freak Howard cut Wallace’s legs off? He must have had plenty of bones to make tusks out of and there are other ways to reduce the prisoner’s mobility pre- and post- suit wearing.

Was Wallace inside the suit of human skin or was it somehow sewn onto him? It seemed very ‘big’ and I’m not sure if the front legs were his arms or not (but then how could they be when his arms were sewn onto his body?!) ….but then his head/face seemed to be seamlessly part of it.

How anyone would be able to survive all that surgery performed by an amateur, especially when it involved amputation and somehow fixing bone teeth into your face?!

Why didn’t they get Wallace out of the walrus suit and try to ‘fix’ him?! I mean the whole film was pretty wacky but the ending was just stupid.

The walrus suit remained the same all the time, even though it was getting wet (and don’t even get me started on Wallace’s toilet needs!) - still with bloody sutures and without rotting.

At least in other similar horror things skinned skin is shown to go ‘off’ or leatherise or people being formed into other ‘things’ don’t cope and die from shock or infection etc.

[–] thingmakersback (1188) 6 months ago

Well, you are not overthinking it on the level of avortac4, but I'd say just a bit. There is no question that sewing the skins of other people to someone is not going to end with them healing into the "suit". And there's no question that as soon as whatsisname was rescued surgeons would be lining up to do the immediate salvage work... The long term reconstructive work would definitely take years. Of course, the amateur surgery done on him would have killed him within a couple of weeks, from infection alone, and I don't recall how long he was held and tortured.

This sort of thing is not a new story idea (Well the specifics of walrus creation is) with a madman performing grotesque surgery on victims. There's a Jules de Grandin story by Seabury Quinn from the '30s in which a mad surgeon has a basement dungeon full of women he has mutilated in the most extreme ways, amputating faces, removing bones to leave flopping limbs for example. In that one the heroes happily walked away after the house was blown up, (I think it was an accident with the gas), reflecting that it was better that the poor victims had all died in the explosion...

[–] OratiaGlake (1234) 6 months ago

That story from the 30s certainly sounds… erm… interesting lol

[–] thingmakersback (1188) 6 months ago

It stuck with me. Almost all of the de Grandin stories are supernatural detective yarns with the hero and his "Watson" investigating and destroying vampires, ghouls, demons etc... But in this one they have an auto breakdown and more or less walk in on this insane house of horrors, which gets destroyed pretty much by accident. Author was VERY prolific, and was, presumably, writing in haste.

[–] OratiaGlake (1234) 6 months ago

Interesting, thank you, I’ll have to read up on that