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The Ending

posted 18 years ago by tw100
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I saw this film last night on BBC1, and I thought it was OK. The only thing I didn't get at all was the ending, it was so unexplained and sthrange.
Can someone please explain it to me?

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[–] atschakenbos 18 years ago

You call this trash?
This film has some very entertaining and a few creepy scenes that deserve more credit.

Not to mention the great soundtrack that comes along with it!

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[–] DriftingAlong 15 years ago

I watched the film today and was pleasantly suprised by how much I enjoyed it.
As for the ending I can only presume Catherine's father was in on the whole thing from the start. Maybe he got out of the car when she went for help.

[–] Navajas 14 years ago

I just re-watched it and I'm quite certain that Catherine's father was in on the whole thing from the start. He likely left the car when Catherine left to get help. Besides the explosion and the word of her plotting uncle, Catherine is given no reason to believe her father was actually killed.

(Her mother, on the other hand, appeared to have been killed on impact when the car crashed.)

I'm sure the only reason her father showed up at the end when he did was to confuse her and get her to willingly return to the house while the rest of the cultists got into position to surround her.

And, of course, the movie implies that the cult's scheme to sacrifice Catherine to resurrect Camilla probably succeeded, at least to the extent that Catherine does not survive the ordeal.

Oh yeah...spoilers.

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[–] djdigital09 14 years ago

I interpreted the whole thing as black magic, that the uncle just created an illusion of the father to get the girl to go back into the house.

[–] anacamille 13 years ago

Navajas, here, is 100% correct. Anyone thinking anything else is reading WAY too much into this movie. Everything points to this, and its not hard to follow. I'd elaborate more but I haven't slept well in days and can't think things through enough today.

[–] questar 7 years ago

It seems less believable that the father was in on anything. How could they predict that the mother would die in the crash? I took the reappearance of the dead father to be an illusion, a power of illusion similar to what was demonstrated earlier with the boyfriend. That seems more believable, though I must say that I thought this movie sucked and believability was just the tip of the iceberg.

03/10

[–] warren_houghton 13 years ago

Yes, I also loved the clarinet-heavy score. Both Barbara Kellerman and Candace Glendenning were pleasantly diverting to watch. Barbara is more classically attractive but Candace had a very interesting face, especially her eyes.

Compared to "Crucible of Horror" also starring Michael Gough, which I watched recently (came on the same 50 movie compilation) the plot was practically straightforward. The ending could've been illusion, but I vote for the father being in the coven and in on the plan. I found it interesting that apparently both Michael Gough's character's wife and Catherine were descendants of the same dead witch. Hurts my head to try to figure out the ramifications of this though....

[–] ElectricWarlock 9 years ago

I agree with the people who say he was in on it. I think the mother did die because she would've never agreed with the plan to sacrifice her own daughter, but the dad was part of it so he did escape from the car and gave Catherine to the cult to be sacrificed.

[–] ethansconn 8 years ago

The ending was my favourite part, didn't see it coming.