Seeing as all of those lost souls inhabited dead bodies later in the movie... they all had dead bodies to inhabit at the beginning!!!
shareThere was a missing step in there somewhere - when Jacobs went back to his own body, he was injected with an antidote of some sort. The FBI showed up right as everyone was ingesting the poison, thus there was no one able to administer the antidote, so they all "died" (or whatever) for real.
They're coming to get you, Barbara!
do you not remember when Jim bludgeoned the one follower to death and how he rose right after?
shareYes, you make a good point. Why kill someone and come back all murdery? The next evolution of our soul and spirit is a subsuming wrath? Why not just hop back into your own corpse? Live a life free of the fear of death. Maybe it was because they removed the nails themselves. Perhaps our souls need to grow a bit more to get there. Maybe it was because Jim Jacobs was a psychopath like Jim Jones was.
shareAll of the above
shareI would tell you to watch the movie again but even I'm not that cruel. Before the entire group consumes the poison Jim says that he won't be able to use his powers to bring everyone back at once which is why they had to use the antidote instead.
shareThis is my issue with this film. The film makers fell asleep on their own mythos! If you lead us to believe they need the antidote, keep it in the script and don't have Jacobs bludgeoned a man to death for him to rise again.
But then, could it be he had been given the antidote off-screen? Another question is did the antidote just act as a gateway to lead them back until they all learned how to transfer their souls and that later, they wouldn't need it?
Never mind, Watch the film again. You clearly missed an entire section of it near the end.
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