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Something about the ritual that I need clarified

posted 8 years ago by thefluffprincess
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They have the whole jock and virgin and fool and slut and brain set up they have to go by to satisfy the Gods or whatever. But where does it say in the ritual that it has to be those specific five people to satisfy the archetypes? I know they chose them and set the whole thing up to kill them. But when Marty and Dana got into the underground and all the people started getting massacred by the creatures that were set loose, that's where my confusion stems from. Are you telling not one of those people that was killed was enough of a "fool" to satisfy the role and finish the ritual? Were they not eligible because they weren't the ones "picked"? Or did it just not work because their blood wasn't put into the carvings in that underground chamber?

[–] PreachCaleb 8 years ago

Were they not eligible because they weren't the ones "picked"?

Bingo. It's all ritual. The gods don't just want random deaths. If that was all, then they'd be satisfied with all the wars going on constantly.

They want a show.

Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.

[–] Hala93 8 years ago

The woman said the blood should be for youth people .

[–] Strannger (2007) 8 years ago

The others played roles designed for them. The jock was the one who played sports, the slur who slept around, the virgin good girl and Marty who was stoned all the time was chosen as the fool.

[–] ExTechOp (2770) 6 years ago

Added to which, after they were "picked," they were brainwashed into playing those roles. The "jock" was an honors student, as was the "slut," while the "virgin" was having an affair with her professor, the "brain" was the actual jock and the "fool" figured everything out (his weed having come from an untainted source).

[–] OldG (809) 7 years ago

Didn't they also say... that the Virgin had to survive or die last... What would have happened if Dana was killed before the others? Wasn't that kind of a risky setup... I mean Dana could easily have been killed before any of the others... And what was the meaning of all the countries where the ritual failed and in Japan in was a success without any deaths?

[–] AP (5290) 7 years ago

Japan was not a success. It failed along with all the others because the monsters were all defeated. From all indications, the rituals are different in every country (an allusion to how the horror genre plays out in those places). I guess as long as the gods got one show right, it was all good.

[–] [deleted] 7 years ago

I could answer your question but am afraid of Illuminati.

[–] HAL 9010 (906) 6 years ago

Accidental deaths don't count. The five kids were setup for sacrifice and so their death counted.

[–] Annkat (364) 10 months ago

The ritual was a thinly veiled reference to the Jewish occult passover ritual.

During the ritual there are five cups representing a Jewish prototype:

1 - Wise One
2 - Wicked One
3 - Innocent One
4 - Foolish One
5 - Elijah (Cup of Elijah)

This ritual is supposed to open the pit to release their Messiah.

The film inverted it.

1 - The Scholar
2 - The Whore
3 - The Athlete
4 - The Fool
5 - The Virgin

This fictional ritual was to keep the pit closed and what lurks their trapped.

But the fictional depiction works for the real one because it puts it into our conscious and subconscious.

Now that you know...reject it.