I was watching the movie Audrey
Rose recently, and it’s about some girl who died in a car accident and is
reincarnated as someone else’s daughter, but she has these violent episodes
where she relives her previous death. And when we see a replay of her accident,
it’s clear the little girl was not wearing her seatbelt. So then once it
becomes clear that this current girl is the same soul who did not wear her
seatbelt, shouldn’t they give her a ticket for not wearing her seatbelt? I
mean, if they don’t, then what kind of example is that going to set: you can
get away with traffic infractions by dying and being reincarnated? Then
everyone will do it!
But just think of it: if the police started ticketing people
for traffic infractions from previous lives, how could anyone possibly fight it
in court? So then the cops could just give anyone a ticket for anything, and if
you protested that you didn’t do it, they’d say that maybe you don’t remember
it now, but you did it in a previous life in like 1940, when you jaywalked, or
failed to stop at a stop sign. Seriously: think of all the money the police
could get from this sort of thing! Then maybe they’d stop with the civil
forfeiture stuff.
(BTW: Audrey Rose
is a movie from 1977 made by Robert Wise, who also made The Haunting (1963), and who worked with Val Lewton at RKO in the
1940s on movies like Curse of the Cat People and The Body Snatcher. He also made West
Side Story and The Sound of Music,
which many horror fans find way more terrifying to watch. Anyway, this movie
was made, I believe, because The Exorcist
was a big hit, and so was The Omen,
and I think they said: “Oh, you like possessed kids and demon kids? Um, okay,
then how about a soul transference/reincarnation kid?” I mean, it worked with Bridey Murphy 20 years earlier, so why
not, right? Bridey Murphy was even
mentioned in The Haunting. But this
movie Audrey Rose doesn’t quite come
off, for some reason. It has some good scenes, and some nice acting, but it
also falls flat in other departments. I hate to say it, but the girl playing
the title role is just not quite up to the task. Maybe that’s the issue. But I
dare say that people weren’t as interested in a soul transference horror movie
as they were in a demonic possession one.)
