taxi driver?
I think the implication is supposed to be that a taxi driver was sitting in the car, a ghost entered through the exhaust pipe, and possessed the driver.
The only time physical non-human beings are seen in the first movie are Gozer, the terror dogs, and the creatures in Dana's chair, all who I assume to be flesh and blood aliens/extra-dimensional beings, and not the spirits of dead people.
As a kid I thought more like zombie, a non-cannibalistic zombie.
But ALSO as a kid when the guy in the cab says 'let's not dawdle', I thought he SAW what the driver looked like and said 'that's not normal', LOL!
But ALSO as a kid when the guy in the cab says 'let's not dawdle', I thought he SAW what the driver looked like and said 'that's not normal', LOL!
I've always assumed the taxi driver was a ghost that entered through the exhaust pipe and manifested a physical form. The taxi was empty to begin with (the driver was either on break or ran off in a panic earlier).
shareit creeped me out because I thought the cab driver was in there and it drained his life force killing him basically.
I think a comedy like this should have nobody get killed it subtracts from the funny aspect.
That could be it. And then the ghost possessed the corpse.
shareJust assumed it was a ghost that took the form of a zombie. It was just to show the complete chaos the city had descended into. I don't think they would throw in something so disturbingly dark as a taxi driver being killed in such a way, in the middle of a comedy.
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So maybe the driver was just possessed and not killed.
shareIt's just a ghost--it entered the cab via the tailpipe and manifested as the skeletal cabbie, who in earlier drafts was purported to be a skeletal biker who terrorized upstate New York.