as140
Since: Feb, 2016
Jun 10th 2019 at 9:50:53 AM
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"There's another use of the trope in Psycho III: Norman has turned his real mother, who revealed herself to him at the end of Psycho II, into another mummy whom Norman pretends to be talking to him." Actually it was his aunt who claimed to be his mother.
Thecommander236
Since: Aug, 2011
Drakedragon
Since: Jul, 2012
Jul 17th 2012 at 7:52:58 PM
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Deleted the following, because the living person didn't go bonkers or do anything overly creepy with the body.
- A soft-focus version takes place in Rurouni Kenshin. When his first wife Tomoe dies, he takes her corpse to the house they shared, lays her in her bed, and apparently stays several days with her before burning the whole house as a funeral pyre of sorts.
"One morbid sideline for early photographers was taking pictures of dead children, dressed up and posed as if alive so that bereaved families could have a photograph to remember their lost child by." Actually they usually were not posed "as if alive" but the pictures were taken while they were lying in a coffin or a bed. Post mortem photograhies that show them sitting are usually fake because a dead body cannot sit upright even if you pose it that way. Since it cannot hold it´s own weight.