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Why did Bughuul have the children kill their families?


If he needed to consume their souls, what was the purpose of killing the families?

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Children are usually considered innocent and free of sin.

So the demon needs them to commit murder not only to ruin their souls but create a connection between our world and his. Then he can take them.

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Children are usually considered innocent and free of sin.

So the demon needs them to commit murder not only to ruin their souls but create a connection between our world and his. Then he can take them.


This is the right answer. Mr. Boogie has to corrupt the souls of the children he takes because their innocense protects them.

The "blood sacrifice" of the families isn't so much to summon Mr. Boogie as it is to tarnish the souls of the children he is about to take.

The negative spirtual energy generated by the deaths and the fear felt by repeated watching of the movies allows Mr. Boggie to manifest himself in this world.

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Sorry, but there is no right answer, just hypotheses.
Maybe they explain everything in a sequel, but I really hope they won't.

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Sorry, but there is a right answer. Ethan Hawke's character talks to Vincent D'Ofrio's crazy professor character about negative energy and spirtual turbulence at least twice in tne movie.

You didn't need a degree to figure out what was going on, you only had to pay attention.

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I'm refering to the Op question. Why did Bughuul have the children kill their families? There is no right anwer, just some Hypotheses.

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Sorry, but there is a right answer. Ethan Hawke's character talks to Vincent D'Ofrio's crazy professor character about negative energy and spirtual turbulence at least twice in tne movie.

You didn't need a degree to figure out what was going on, you only had to pay attention.


You are wrong and you are the one who needs to pay attention. NO WHERE in the film does it state as to why the children murdered their families. Any answer you give is just a guess, a hypothesis. The professor in the film, who was not crazy by the way, was talking about the demon, not the children specifically. Nor did he ever give any conditions for how a child would be taken or what needed to be accomplished beforehand. You are wrong kidsixxx, there is no right answer as it was never said in the film. However, there are plenty of good guesses.

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So that the house will be vacated and another family can move in and continue the progression. Can't do that if the child just disappears. The family would stay on, searching for years for the missing child and the demon would be forced to wait.

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I assumed it was so that no one was left behind to warn the next family to avoid watching the movies.

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Maybe because they didn't put a spoiler alert in their thread title.

Hail to the king, baby.

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My off the wall theory is that by destroying the people who gave them life they are somehow in some weird metaphysical way destroying/denying themselves. Sort of invalidating their own existence.

Also compelling a child to murder represents the destruction of their innocence. The very thing that defines a child.

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The best answers I have seen are that by having the kids kill the families he eliminated the evidence so nobody would be able to say what happened and that he needed the family out of the way so another family would move in and he could then start over to get another child. And I believe these make a lot of sense.

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So there could be this movie.

Lethe

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