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The ending... (spoilers!!!)

posted 16 years ago by IrishLass240
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Can someone help me understand the ending? Does she bite him? Is that what we should assume?

I actually thought they were going to make it a dream sequence, since he was falling asleep just before he saw his wife walking toward him. The ending really made the rest of the movie worth the investment. It was pretty creepy!

I have to say, the beginning scene with the little girl getting her leg ripped open was very freaky, too! But I agree with other posters about the importance of understanding the movie before you watch it. Because I had read quite a bit about it before seeing it, I understood that it was a "thinking man's horror movie", as one reviewer described it.

If they could only bottle that soil, they'd make a million! But, seriously, what happened at the end? Should we assume that she decided to have him for dinner? That's the only way I can interpret it. Unless, by holding her, he realized that she felt like a corpse and was horrified.

What do you all think? I'd love to know!

Sheila

[–] ELashes 13 years ago

Spoilers ahead.
I think she not only bit him, because all the other victims of the same type of undead had the diagonally slashed throat, but she actually was used as the murder weapon against him by the conspirators, who were mad that their awesome experiment had to go on the run for a bit. They knew that when they left her unmarked body lying on the bed that his dumb ass was going to bury her in the K ground and what she would do to him.
I'd go as far as saying that the doctor intended for her to be a part of the experiment all along; how coincidental is it that the doctor who was essentially like a godfather to her was also part of the conspiracy her husband was trying to expose? The only part of that theory I can't back up is how they managed to get the typewriter into her hands in the first place.

[–] lemon_magic 8 years ago

I think we are supposed to think that what she does to him is a) "too horrible to contemplate", b) takes a long, long time and c) is made infinitely worse by his grief and the realization that the woman he loved is really gone and this "thing" wearing her face has taken her place.

[–] dbzgal04 7 years ago

I love that theory of the conspirators using his wife against him! I also thought that maybe the undead ex-priest came up and "helped" the undead wife kill her husband.
Yeah, even if the dead are revived in these kind of movies they still aren't truly the same. But he still buried her in that K-zone. Like they say, love is blind and/or makes you blind.