Slug Girl

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Rie later visits Yuuko in her home to see that she is in bed wearing a mask. Yuuko tells her to go away. Later...








Her parents try everything including putting salt in her mouth but nothing works. Yuuko grows weaker as she is unable to eat. Eventually her parents fill the tub with salt and bring Yuuko into it.

Comments

[espanolbot]

I think that it's best to just approach it like it was an EC Comic like Tales of the Crypt or something. Sometimes the weird crap can be explained as karmic punishment for some overt vice that the main character might be displaying, other times it's just unpleasant things happening to people because they're just unlucky.

Kind of like the difference between someone who routinely shoplifts finding that someone's been coming into their house house while they're out and stealing random things, and someone accidentally getting run over by a bus.

The first example is, as I said, a kind of macabre karmic story, the second is more an example of being just having really crap luck.

Sometimes in horror the people deserve it, for example, the people in the Mummy obliquely deserve to be attacked by Imhotep for desecrating an ancient tomb for profit AND accidentally releasing an immortal undead sorcerer to the bargin. Others it's just a case of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, or just knowing the wrong people, in the case of the Grudge or the Woman in Black for example.

[janegray]

I wouldn't say that desacrating a tomb of a person who died thousands of years ago deserves the death penality. And releasing the sorcerer was an accident, as you said, thus even less punishable.

[espanolbot]

Not exactly worth the death penalty, but still morally dubious. Especially as people back in the day used to use mummies for firewood (referenced in the movie) or had them ground into powder to use in paint.

[donnblake]

Or ate them! Mmmm, delicious mummy flesh.

Or, if we're to believe Mark Twain, burnt them to power trains. Now there's a haunted rail story for you.