QWouldn't there be enough evidence to convict Stuntman Mike in the deaths of the first group of girls?
AStuntman Mike was very clever on how to stay clear of charges.He didn't smoke any weed when offered, and he didn't drink any alcohol while at the bar. While driving head-on at the girls, he turns his headlights off. Then seconds before he crashes into them, he turns them back on. This was done so that they wouldn't see him until it was too late, and also so that when forensics investigates, they will see that he had his headlights on during the crash.As pointed out by Earl McGraw, Stuntman Mike comes out clean as a whistle, while all the girls are drunk and high.Mike could have possibly been charged with reckless endangerment or involuntary manslaughter due to him giving Pam a ride without a proper passenger seat or seat belt and nobody would know she had died before the crash. However, as Earl McGraw points out, she asked him for the ride and it would look like he was just trying to help her out.Any evidence towards Stuntman Mike would be circumstantial. The fact that he drives a stunt car, and was the one speeding, doesn't mean he was the one that crashed into the girls. The evidence contradicting this would be more overwhelming.
QThe Crazy Babysitter twins are credited, but I don't see them.....where are they?
AThey are seen in the bar in the beginning. They are the laughing girls who are seen entering Warren's Bar when we first see it. Look for them in the lapdance sequence (white and green shirts with matching skirts, holding drinks, and dancing quite distractingly in the background to the song).
QWhy didn't Kim stop the car at the end to let Zoë in when Stuntman Mike was chasing them?
AWhen two vehicles are moving at the same speed, say fifty miles per hour, and one is sideswiping the other, the only force behind the impact is that imparted by the lateral (i.e. side-to-side) motion, which is perhaps only ten miles per hour. If they had slowed the car, the impacts from Stuntman Mike's car would have drastically increased in force: doubling the velocity quadruples the impact (for example, look at how violent and destructive the first car crash was when comparing the girls' and Stuntman Mike's vehicles' speeds). So if they had dropped to, say, thirty miles per hour, while Stuntman Mike's car held at fifty, he'd have hit them at the equivalent of twenty miles per hour, or four times as hard. This would make slowing the car a far more dangerous tactic. In addition, the car would have had to have slowed down very gradually to keep the inertia from hurling Zoe off of the hood, during which time they'd have been more vulnerable to being forced into a crash.Another explanation is that, given the fact that the movie is an homage to the '70s exploitation movies, the movie was written this way on purpose. A lot of '70s exploitation movies had weird dialogue, thin plotlines, a lot of inconsistencies and a general B movie-like feel. Therefore, a goof like this was not uncommon in those movies.Also, when someone is being attacked, self-preservation tends to kick in and the instinct to simply "get away" would probably be overwhelming. So Kim may not have been thinking of stopping to let Zoe in, but simply to get away as quick as possible.
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