Help with the ending...possible *SPOILERS*

Andy! See my comment(s) on the film! Will dig out my copy for you sometime this week and see...!

Andy -- did you purchase the DVD from eBay, or a VHS tape and transfer it to DVD yourself?

If the latter, make another DVD at a slower speed. The ending is in the synopses from the main page.

Herb

This is a guess, the drug, that Ian McShane had drunk was supposed to kill him, but did not. Ava and her henchman did not want to get their hands' dirty, left him alone with Stephanie Beacham.

In the Scottish folklore poem Tam Lin, Tam was almost transformed by the fairy witch into a huge nasty looking snake because he longer love her but he love mortal Janet.Janet's love kept him becoming an immortal sea serpent on Halloween's Night in the cold pouring rain, she was not willingly to let him go held on to him tight and end of the night, he was completely mortal free from the fairy witch.

The impression that I got was that Tom was supposed to drive the car while drugged in the hopes that he would crash and kill himself. At least, that's how Mickey's two previous lovers died. When they find Tom bruised and scratched, but otherwise alive and safe in the arms of the Vicar's daughter, Mickey's new man-of-the-hour says, 'It didn't work', and they all get in their cars and leave. So i'm thinking they were hoping he would die in a car crash, drown in the swamp, or otherwise die of exposure in the forest.