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Another question about the ending

posted 14 years ago by forecastfortoday
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what the hell was with the narraration??? What were they saying? Who was saying it?

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[–] jawsfan 14 years ago

My belief for the ending is that Charlie Winters was riding around, killing off ghost killers in the towns they haunted... think about it.

The first 2 figures are decapitated at the beginning, only one left... then when Charlie shows up, and shoots the invisible killer, it cuts back later to show the last figure beheaded. My personal thoughts on it.

I dunno about the old people though, maybe they were relatives of people on the trip.

[–] HumanoidOfFlesh 14 years ago

Sounds good enough for me.

[–] forecastfortoday 14 years ago

I always thought Charlie was the killer but that makes sense too.

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[–] feierman 14 years ago

So jawsFan is saying some kind of ghost was the killer?

[–] joshg_123 14 years ago

The killer is actually the sailor in the painting at the end. As the horse-riding ghost explained about an hour in to the picture to the rest of the people, he was on a ship or whatever with the Captain, and something or other...blah blah...point is, The Butcher represents the Captain, who killed the Baker and Candlestick Maker...and at the end, the good ghost kills the captain ghost, thus the Butcher is headless at the end. He's just stopping the bad ghost from further killing. Why did the sailor go on a killing spree? Uh...nobody knows, hehe

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[–] feierman 14 years ago

Oh yeah, and they don't show the evil spirit but just a painting of him, just thinking about it sounds creepy.

[–] CharlesVariations 10 years ago

Also, you do hear the killer (the Captain) groan in pain when he gets shot.

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[–] smerd_70 14 years ago

The narration at the end is Woody Strode's story repeated. If you listen to Woody Strode's story he tells the people in the ghost town- he explains who the killer is and how he knows him.

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[–] jawsfan 14 years ago

Ha, Josh! GOT again.

Heh, yeah, I guess that makes a bit more sense. Woody Strode has to be a ghost.