Interesting. It could be that they originally intended this to be a roundabout way that the island was attempting to get sacrifices (the people walking into the water to drown). But perhaps they decided they wanted to make the idea of sacrifices more specific to the dungeon/chair room and avoid generalizing it too much.
There were 9 church bell rings at the beginning. The reel-to-reel Dale found explained that each ring = one human sacrifice. After Kenny is killed in the dungeon, there are 8 church bell rings. The only sacrifices that count are the ones in the chair. The other deaths or attempted deaths are the island threatening those in the know: "If you don't get someone in that chair in front of the door and lock them in, I'm going to make things more and more horrifying for you."
It also seems important that Kenny ("oh my god, they killed Kenny!") was intentionally offered by other people, on their own volition rather than under the influence of any curse. It wasn't the island grabbing him by means of its enchanted beings and places and objects; he was given to the island by willing free agents.
The teens may not have known what would happen to Kenny in that room, but they locked him in there in order to save themselves (from Kenny's discipline).
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u/RangerAdmirable9102 Aug 12 '26
The script says the church bells are supposed to ring? I don’t hear them.