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2 large mistakes (spoilers)


Ive come across 2 quite large mistakes in the movie, at least I think they are and was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on them.

1) The killer cuts off his nipples in the beginning if I recall. Throughout the film we see the culprit topless and his nipples are perfectly intact and later the nipples are found in the accountants drawer, I assume they were planted there by the killer but if the killer didnt cut off his nipples as evidenced by the fact he still has his nipples in later scenes when hes topless does that mean that the accountant was the one making the phone call and cutting off his nipples despite not being actually Bobo the clown.

2) Bobo is in a phone booth talking to Camille. When asked for her name Camille thinks for a second and says "Karen". Later we cut back to the phone booth to reveal Bobo has replaced himself with a pre recording of his voice and as she listens to him he sneaks in her house and kills her. Nothing wrong with that, except that on the recording he says hes upset she lied to him when she called herself Karen as he knows thats not her name. Now unless Bobo is psychic how did he know she was going to give Karen as a name. Yes his girfriend works there and she couldve filled him in on the police trap but it really seemed like she pulled the name Karen out of thin air so how did he know exactly that she would say that to him so he could make a recorded response and play that to keep her on the phone.

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Well you are dead on with number two. However, the first fact you listed is incorrect.

During the first phone call (Kevin/Bobo) slices his nipple, though does not cut them off. When Joanne is killed her nipples are cut off as evidenced by 1)when her corpse is found a long stream of red is shown beneath the white EMT sheet right around where her breasts are located. AND 2) during the phone call with Camille, Bobo states the following: "Joanne told me I could play with her breasts on the phone but when we got to the park, she wouldn't let me. Now I've got her neatly filed away 'under N for NO tits".

Then when Christi finds the black keep case in Stringer's office it holds Joanne's Nipples and some publc hair as he also previously mentioned that he wished to have Camille "pluck her hairs out one by one- and I think you know which ones I mean- I happen to like em young".

As someone who has seen this horror-b-movie about a million times, I hope this clears that one up. But you are totally right about the second point. She did pull the name out of thin air.

I'm sure there are alot of ways I've gone that you haven't.- Stripes

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thank you. My version was cut and so the discovery of the nipples was at first pointless to me and then i read a detailed synopsis on the internet saying that bobo cuts his nipples off at beginning so that made me think it was his in the box.

Is the uncut version good? cos i might have to track that down.

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Still..You are right about the first one two..We saw him shirtless several times and I said "Well he can't be the killer because he should have a nasty scar"...But he didn't...

"See it with someone you love...Go by yourself"

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Still a gaffe there. The nipple guy on the phone at the beginning had a hairy chest and throughout the film, Kevin did not.

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No, it's the same chest and the same hair. Cameron Dye (the actor playing Kevin) does not have an overly hairy chest, but he does have hair in the nipple region. And that opening scene with the knife cutting around his nipple is a very close-up shot. The first scene with Kevin laying in bed with his girlfriend also shows the same amount of hair in that region. In faraway shots during the film, sure, it looks like he doesn't have much hair at all on his chest, but when closer, you will see it. Same nipple size, too, so I'm sure Dye did do that opening nipple scene himself. Not a gaffe at all.

And in the opening scene, he wasn't cutting off his own nipple, he was just cutting in to the flesh around it as he got aroused on the sex phone call. A little nick to get blood doesn't always leave a scar. Lots of nipple discussion in this thread, though! :-P

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