Imagine the dread possibilities: still-born baby wakes up
Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 8:34 pm
The classic idea is that the infant could see dead people or something, what with having partially crossed over.
The baby could have become a vessel for some malignant spirit or demon - what with having left a body waiting as an empty receptical.
Alternatly, the infant may be literaly one of the living dead - a corpse that grows and ages, but like a ghoul or vampire, is not truly alive. Perhaps it is animated by the force of its mother`s will.
Sort of like that old move The Night Andy Came Home - where a mother`s grief returns a dead soldier from Vietnam, but as a parasitic living corpse.