Ending

Nope, David is the killer. It's all in his imagination. Or is it?

We never see him die. Hmmm

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The film is smart in that there are no less than three killers. There's the old Shaman that lurks in the woods, who obviously kills Robert Ritchie at the very end. A little earlier it's Robert Ritchie who kills his adulterous wife Julia. But it's Ben, the son of Robert and Julia (returning home from the Marines), who's the main killer throughout the movie, wearing a mask of the old Shaman.

And who killed the couple in the opening sequence?

If you're talking about Rose & her guy who left the basketball game, the killer may have been Ben as a boy since he was at the scene of the crime, likely wearing the mask of the old Shaman.

To elaborate, we know the Sheriff left his patrol car in the woods to have sex with Julia in the barn or what have you. Ben couldn't handle keeping his mother's affair secret and it psychologically drove him to create a fiendish dark side. Assuming he's the killer of Rose & boyfriend, he would've been angry about his mother having sex with the Sheriff and so has a fit, killing the teen couple who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Another possibility is that the Shaman murdered Rose & her beau and Ben just happened to be there to see it. And this is what inspires him to become a killer wearing the Shaman mask.

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