So is the chick dead?
I know her watch/music went off, but did she set it off to alert the cops? Or was she already dead, and the alarm went off automatically.
Also, what was in that letter??
No, it's implied that she set off her watch to cause alarm to her plight and her psychiatrist noticed it in the last minute and so did the cops with him. Remember that Jennifer wasn't entombed for a long time behind that wall since her husband/murderer had just finished cementing the wall when the psychiatrist arrived with the police. The letter was written by Agneta(the girl that appears in the magazine cover in Jennifer's vision) who was implicated together with Jennifer's husband in an art robbery, that had revealed where the stolen painting was and Jennifer's husband killed anyone to conceal the robbery and the stolen painting and that's why he attacked and tried to kill his psychic wife, believing that she had read that letter.
shareAgreed, she's not dead. But we are left hanging wondering - brilliantly. The only slight oddity is that you'd think you'd double check before walling someone up that they were acutally dead. Maybe she was playing dead, but somehow I think it was just convenient for the story. Still, brilliant film - his best next to "Don't Torture a Duckling" - and check out the same cliff face smashing effect!
Odd to think that he went onto really lower himself with such dumbed down films - much as I love Zombi 2 / Flesheaters this clearly was the begining of his downfall, though the New York Ripper was a brief return to form in my view, all be it a bit sleazy! I personally really don't rate the three films he made with Catriona McColl, at all. They, compared to film of this quality just don't even seem to be by the same director. And let's not even mention "House of Clocks" or "Manhattan Baby"!
I agree with you completely regarding the end of "Seven Notes In Black"/"The Psychic", since O'Neill's scheming husband was in so much of a hurry to wall her in, that he didn't check if she was really dead and thart was his real downfall. Ironically Fulci repeated that very same ending later in The Black Cat when Patrick MacGee walls up Mimsy Farmer alive, but his black cat reveals to the police where she is walled up.
I assumed she probably was dead. She was smashed in the face with a lump of iron/steel fairly hard. I also assumed the watch went off on its own, much as it did when she was hiding in the church (although she may have triggered it by accident there, in which case she probably isn't dead).
Yippee-ki-yay, mother - *sound of lift beeping*
Check again the climax to THE PSYCHIC,since when Gianni Garko hits Jennifer O'Neill with the poker, she is still alive and semi conscious when he walls her up alive. When Jennifer's boyfriend/psychiatrist arrives with the cops at her house,a mere matter of minutes have passed before they hear the music from her watch. I believe that Fulci deliberately left the ending to his film ambigious although it's common sense that the cops will tear down the wall and find Jennifer dead or alive behind it, therefore condemning her husband to prison.
shareShe was definitely not dead when walled up, her whole psychic vision is from the inside of the wall in the first place. She saw the vision from inside the wall, everything was always from her own view, the fact that she didn't realize this was odd but somewhat understandable. She even hears the sound of her watch alarm in her original vision, a plot point most people don't pick up on it seems.
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