Dana doesn’t have a neighbour on the other side. She lives in the corner penthouse of spook central.
What’s a little puzzling is why the neighbour across the hall didn’t get turned into a dog, but I suspect the dog would have taken anyone. Louis was just unlucky, and since he was the first to run, the dog chased him.
Perhaps the demons chose the Gatekeep as the most breedable woman in the building, and Louis as the man most desperate to breed? That would insure that when they found each other, the dimensional boot-slammin’ would happen as quickly as possible.
See I think that too, now that I’ve watched it four times this weekend.
Louis’s char seemed pretty pathetic and wimpy and extrordinarily geeky, judging by his behavior (setting his VCR on fastrun to get his workout done at 5X the speed, his way of ‘writing off’ the party by inviting clients instead of friends). What Hama said makes a whole heckuvalotta sense.
MetalMaven
[quote shortened by me]
Didn’t you answer your own quesiton?
Funny scenes = Funny movie
Hilarity ensues.
I had always heard the name as “Vince Klortho, Keymaster of Goser”. Since that was an actual name, my thought process was always that Vince Klortho was one of Evo Shandor’s (the architect who built Dana and Louis’ building) disciples, who was chosen as the lucky/unlucky vessel when Shandor tried to summon Goser the first time. The fact that Vince was possessed of a full range of speech and the ability to interact with the rest of society (although in a tremendously skewed fashion)(“Would you like some coffee?” “Would I?” “Yes, have some.” “Yes, have some!”) kind of led me to believe he had been human at one time, and had simply become the Keymaster as a reward for serving Shandor/Goser well. I mean, he certainly has his history down pretty well-“Then, during the Rectification of the Vuldani…then, during the Third Reconciliation of the last of the McKettrick supplicants…”, exactly the kind of thing you’d expect from some whacked-out culty suck-up.
But then he sniffs the popcorn jar like a dog later on in the same scene, so that kinda blows the whole theory.
Could be that Dana and Louis were chosen as the vessels of Vince and Zuul because they lived in those particular apartments. Maybe whoever was living there when the Apocalypse rolled into town was considered to be marked for sacrifice.
Does raise the question of what would have happened if there’d been a woman living in Louis apartment, or a guy in Dana’s, though.
Gayzer the Gayzerian would have appeared, of course.
Seriously, it’s not impossible that members of Shandor’s cult owned the building and manipulated the apartment rentals/sales to ensure a man and a woman - or maybe the invocation of Zuul puts Vinz in the body of the nearest man of appropriate age.
Ok - my thought on this was that they wrote ‘a movie’ (ie - it’s not real) with as many gags as they could about ghosts /demons etc and used the characteristics of those cast as the gag source - Moranis=nerd; Murray=wiseass; Aykroyd=technonerd etc.
I thought they played to their strengths and made up the rest for comic effect.
Maybe I’m thinking of the building the wrong way, but wouldn’t that still imply having two neighbors, but being, say, to the North and East of her instead of the North and South or East and West(assuming the building was laid out to correspond to the cadinal directions).