BOTHMC Round 1 Fight 16: Haunting Ghosts VS Actual Death

[Dukefrukem]

Battle of the Horror Movie Characters

Round 1: Fight 16


Ghosts (The Haunting 1963)


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Weapon: ghostly things
Advantages: move things, bang on doors at night, unbolt stairways
Weaknesses: scared of the daylight



vs



Death (Final Destination Films)


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Weapon: EVERYTHING!
Advantages: Cannot cheat death
Weaknesses: Can delay the pattern

[Spun Lepton]

What can death do to something that's already dead?

Nothing.

[Kurosawa Fan]

Yeah, this battle doesn't really make sense. How do they fight?

[Dead & Messed Up]

Yeah, this battle doesn't really make sense. How do they fight?

Ghosts aren't scared of Death. They beat it. Death isn't scared of Ghosts. What can they do? It can't die.

Stalemate.

[Spun Lepton]

Ghosts aren't scared of Death. They beat it. Death isn't scared of Ghosts. What can they do? It can't die.

Stalemate.

"That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die."

[Dead & Messed Up]

"That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die."

Yeah, well, it's 2012. When these strange aeons hit, let me know. I'll change my vote.

[Ezee E]

That death seems to always figure out a way. No matter how insane...

[Spun Lepton]

Yeah, well, it's 2012. When these strange aeons hit, let me know. I'll change my vote.

It was worth a shot.

[MadMan]

Death, just because, well, its Death. The Haunting Ghosts never struck me as really threatening, although the 1963 The Haunting is indeed a creepy, well made ghost movie.

[Winston*]

In the Haunting

isn't it ambiguous whether the ghosts exist or not?

[Spun Lepton]

In the Haunting

isn't it ambiguous whether the ghosts exist or not?

Not really.

Edited, expanding on that:

Near the end, the entire group sees a door breathing and buckling in. That pretty much ends any ambiguity.

[Dead & Messed Up]

Not really.

Edited, expanding on that:

Near the end, the entire group sees a door breathing and buckling in. That pretty much ends any ambiguity.

The alternative explanation is that

Eleanor has some sort of low-grade telekinesis. She was the center of a Fortean rain as a child, and her distress in the house provokes the thumps and beds moving and door buckling.

[Mr. Pink]

Hmmm . . . . Do we assume Death has already killed the The Haunting ghosts?

Either way, I'd still vote Death.