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What happened at the end?


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I just saw the ending on YouTube, but it cut off right after the guy stabbed his lover and himself with that steel rod and they both beam up to the ship. What happened after that? What happened to them?

That was a stupid thing to do.


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the ship just flies away. The movie ends.

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www.wikipedia.org states that:

"Carlsen impales himself and the female alien in the process. Wounded but not fatally, the female vampire returns to her ship, releasing a burst of energy that blasts the top off the church building in the process and taking Carlsen with her. The two ascend up the column of light to the vessel, which then departs towards the comet it came from."

-So you may assume 'the female vampire' survived and placed herself in suspended animation, and will return in another 80-years when Halley's Comet returns. Not sure if the book "The Space Vampires" ends the same way or not.

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So you may assume 'the female vampire' survived and placed herself in suspended animation, and will return in another 80-years when Halley's Comet returns. Not sure if the book "The Space Vampires" ends the same way or not. >>> The book doesn't end the same way at all, simply because the movie deviates quite a bit as it goes on and becomes something completely different from what the novel did.

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the from above shot of them beaming up was totally ridiculous and made it seem like we were all dummies and couldnt figure out the obvious, as you see the sword drop and the extra large ball of light break thru the cathedrals dome...

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The female alien tells Carlson that he was always one of them. After he stabs her and himself they fly up to the alien craft where they go into suspended animation as well as make a whole bunch of baby aliens. Take a look under them. In suspended animation they are standing on a pyramid of babies.

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Soul energy goes to ship and it flies away. Possible the energy is feeding and reawakening the thought to be dead space vampires on board, but since there was no sequel, we may never know.


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I always kinda figured the director and the editor must have been snorting mad amounts cocaine on the cutting room floor, because that ending made absolutely no sense and wagering the success on the movie on the simple fact that the audience can imply anything as a conclusion is about as stupid as the ending of the movie was.

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My friend saw it in theaters in college, and it was one of the very few times he ever smoked marijuana (beforehand). He said the whole experience seemed hilarious to him and he kept cracking up at inappropriate times, but actually he had a fantastic time because of it. He said no one else seemed to be enjoying themselves. He doesn't dare watch it again because it would spoil the good memory.

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it was all a dream?

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