![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As a viewer, I just found myself blaming her for all of this. He also has no qualms killing their family dog (a scene I was none too pleased with to watch), by strangling it in front of his father and a bunch of neighborhood kids.ĭuring these few, tragic days is when we can see the almost emotional abusive family dynamics come to the forefront, making me wonder if Andy really is better off dead, and putting blame on his mother for “resurrecting” him seems appropriate, though no one does that. His emotional responses are in the numb category and he feels more like a robot. Andy spends a lot of time in a rocking chair in his room or in a lawn chair in the back yard. After Christine, his father Charles (John Marley), and his sister Cathy (Anya Ormsby), all spend the night welcoming him home, things take a sinister turn. Until he shows up in the house, his POV is ours and it’s accompanied by an eerie sound similar to what the Sleestaks make from Land Of The Lost (1974-1977). It’s clear, however, after Andy makes it home that first night there’s something “wrong” with him. Rotting away he buries himself in a shallow grave and dies with his mother at his side, and the cops standing over him. It’s not until the very end when he and his mother are on the run from cops that he directs her to the cemetery and to this grave, where we finally see he scrolled his name on it along with the date of his birth and the date of his death. After he gets home he takes a walk late one night in the local cemetery, and seems to find something interesting about a particular gravestone, he then picks up a rock and starts doing something to it we the viewer cannot see. He also knows he has a limited amount of time in this “undead” state. Andy isn’t blind to what he is either, he knows he’s dead, and we learn this before he kills the town’s doctor, asking him to take his pulse and listen to his dead heart. Andy sucks out the blood with a syringe and injects it into his arm like an illicit drug. Jacobs, Andy, who’s now a walking dead guy, mysteriously appears one night hitchhiking home, and is picked up by a truck driver, who he kills for his blood.Īndy is kind of a cross between a zombie and a vampire, who over the course of the movie rots, but can regain his appearance by draining someone’s blood, but not in the usual through-the-fangs route. Loosely based on The Monkey’s Paw short tale written in 1902 by W. Andy is ass deep in the Vietnam War and in the prologue he and his friend are shot dead. By the end of this movie you’ll understand the importance of the saying be careful what you wish for, because you just might get it, and the Brooks family gets it, big time, thanks to an intense desire by mother Christine (Lynn Carlin) to see her son, Andy (Richard Backus), again. ![]()
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