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Spoiler Points for Crazy Eights (2007) [R] 80 minutes
WIP™ Scale: $9.50
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The film is called Crazy Eights because that's the name that was given to the kids baseball team. There were 8 of them: Brax, Gina (Traci Lords), Brent (Frank Whaley), Jennifer (Dina Meyer), Beth (Babrielle Anwar), Father Lyle (George Newbern), Wayne (Dan DeLuca), and Karen. Of course Brax is dead, so what ever happened to Karen? She's the one who's skeleton is in the box. They put her in there when the were trying to escape the facility and promised to come back for her. When they did, it was too late. She had suffocated. They were just kids, and they were all living in the institution having been left there by their parents. The scientists involved did all sorts of experiments on them designed to test their ability to remember and adjust, etc. They planted false memories and pasts. Karen, however, has come back, as a ghost and she's been planting nightmares in their heads to get them to return to the institution where she can kill them one by one. Brax kills himself because he doesn't want to deal with the pain of what they did. The others, once trapped back in the institution, start getting killed off any time they venture off alone. There seems to be no hope of escape, until they start putting some of the facts together. They discover that they all used to be in the institution together as little kids—their pix are up on the walls. Just reconciling this would have been a good enough movie without the vindictive ghost concept. It's also not clear given the ability of the scientists to have been 'experimenting' or playing mind games with the kids if they actually killed the little girl in the box. It is possible that this was a set-up. The notion of guilt was something they all remember too well as a lesson from their childhoods. So, when thinking about this element it makes the story work even better.
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