Off screen kills
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justiceforall272 — 9 years ago(June 26, 2016 12:29 PM)
So a couple of utility guys got knocked off when checking the phone lines.is that correct? This is when we see the abandoned truck and two bloody helmets on the ground.
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MrZoolook — 9 years ago(July 17, 2016 05:02 AM)
Not 100% sure, but I get the impression that the helmet was from a 3rd guy who was sent to check up on the first two utility guys.
We start off with 2 guys by a truck, one of which gets dragged up the hill and (fairly safe to say) eaten whole, probably including helmet. 2nd guy was crushed under the landslide, so his helmet would likely be buried. The truck itself was to the left of the hill as you face it, and unless it was a massive job with whole swathes of machinery needed, 1 truck would be enough to transport them and the pneumatic drill and a few other bits.
Later on, we see a 2nd smaller truck to the RIGHT of the landslide. And even later Val and Earl see the bloodied helmet, when the first 2 are accounted for.
So, yeah I think 3 people were killed there. 2 by Graboid, and the last by suffocation/crushing/whatever fatal condition resulting from landslide.
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justiceforall272 — 9 years ago(July 19, 2016 05:58 AM)
Well the first two construction guys we see working on the highway are wearing white helmets. The later scene with the pickup truck the two helmets on the ground are yellow. If you notice there is also a small 80s style hand phone laying there too, which had me thinking they were probably utility guys working on the communication lines.
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MrZoolook — 9 years ago(July 19, 2016 09:33 AM)
I never even noticed the colour of the helmets. I think the phone is just a CB radio made to look like a phone for aesthetics.
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RoadSideAssistance — 9 years ago(August 28, 2016 09:11 PM)
Off screen kills are:
- Edgar - dies of dehydration "thirst". We know exactly how he died but it's still off screen in terms of actual death.
- Construction worker #1. Dragged up the hill and likely devoured, but off screen.
- Construction worker #2. Rocks fall on him and hear the crow bar drop.
- Power Company. "They'll send someone after they see the roads are down and the power is out." "Yah that's how it works." And then it pans to their truck with two bloody helmets.
My Dad and I for the longest time never understood that scene, thinking it just panned back to the two dead construction workers, only I later realized it was the power company.
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Woodyanders — 8 months ago(July 15, 2025 08:19 PM)
I like that a few folks are killed offscreen in this film. It's a refreshing break from the usual bloodbath we get in a lot of horror movies.
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