Upside down town map

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I'm not sure what this means exactly, but I found it to be very interesting.

There's a deleted scene of Rose and Cybil breaking into a building and stealing a map to the town to aid them in finding the Grand Hotel, and the map from that scene is in Rose's hand when she and Cybil meet Anna.
Here's a site with a still from the deleted scene:
http://www.rafyphotography.com/gallery. ... 20part%201

The prop was sold on Premiere Props after the release of the film.

Here's what the prop map looks like:
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And here's what the map looks like upside down:
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I guess it really goes to show that the cultists had a major strangehold on the town. It's amazing the amount of detail they put into even the small things.
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Pretty cool!! Would be even cooler to have some marks on the map...
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Mind=Blown.

Oh, JKristine. You and your ability to find things from the first movie. You are impressive. :D
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Holy cow. That's some awesome detail there!

I wonder if they could've took the money used to create that map that no one even really gets to see or cares about and maybe put a little more effort into paying someone to point out obviously dumb lines in the movie. ((OHHHH BURRRRNN))
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Actually, it was Alex420 who discovered that. :D
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Well, hooray Alex420! You've discovered a gem. It's actually quite nice for us SH film fanatics, as I know I relish every exposed detail.
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Ooh, sorry! 'Grats to Alex420, then. :)
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*shrugs* No problem, guys. :mrgreen:

You can speculate and theorize as much as you want on it.
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Man that is so cool.
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That's pretty cool.
Is there an image of the full map?
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Awesome...and the church is smack in the center of the cross. I wish they hadn't deleted this scene. Wonder if it is on purpose that they used a Christian cross for the map and only upside down can you really see the right side up "symbol of faith".

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It was probably intentional, but more because of the common Hollywood trope of using an upside-down cross the represent evil (in reality, the symbol is actually pretty commonly used to represent Christian martyrdom, but not so much in horror films).
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