The Ending

I love this movie too. I look forward to it every october when they run all the old scary movies. My take on this one has always been that the husband killed an innocent by-stander to fake his own death. Remember the Dr. is standing with Sarah at the accident scene. While they are busy looking at the accident the husband sneaks back into the mansion to get Sarah alone.

True...I like the movie...everything except the ending. I dont understand it either. I can understand that the husband faked his death, but why didnt the doctor notice that body didnt match when he identified the body. Furthermore, was he not supposed to have went back to the house that night to be with Sarah? It seems that there is a good five minutes missing to the end of the movie...like maybe the doctor rushes in as she is screaming and kills her ex husband once and for all. Eh, wishful thinking...Oh and I think the body is probably the former housekeeper...but this still does not account for the doctor missing from the house.

I didn't like the way they didn't wrap it up neatly.

I can see how some people might like that way of doing it.

Yeah, it was pretty vague. I got the impression that there wasn't a body in the car. Then again, Dr. Dork should have put 2 and 2 together and realized the husband had something up his sleeve. I'd like to think that Sarah, who was kind of a wimp the whole movie, would have been able to save herself. Who knows. I'm slightly irritated that I won't ever get those 2 hours back, though.

Dainty things never shrink from Lux!

A. The movie is a remake of "Gaslight", so if you enjoyed this, I highly recommend that.

B. What the heck happened?? I can understand putting an ambiguous ending at the end of a slow, rolling story, but at the end of a suspense movie? You've got to be kidding me! That's where it departs from "Gaslight" for the worse. I gotta wonder if Austin killed Sarah how he explains it and gets away with it, and if Sarah strikes back and wins, we deserve to see her and Alan get together at the end. This is just going to bug me.

I just finished watching this while I was doing laundry -- glad I got something accomplished during those two hours -- and had to see what was said, if anything, about the ending. The ending was just lame; Sela Ward screaming her head off and cut to closing credits??!?!? It was a made for tv movie, time was up and they needed an ending. Period. Any speculation regarding what happened to who isn't worth the time. It was just entertainment.

Great seeing Sela Ward looking beautiful as ever without an '80s coif, and so young 17 years ago; she has aged exceptionally well. It was a hoot seeing Morgan Fairchild with her bad perm, the doc's huge eyeglasses (didn't remember men wore them big too), the huge shoulder pads. Enjoy it for what it is. And leave it at that.

"We don't see things as they are. We see things as we are." -- Anaïs Nin

Well they just aired the movie on Sunday...it's one of those movies that you can't help but watch over and over however I also don't like the ending...basically what I think happened was that the hubby faked his death and waited until he could silence Sarah...I believe that the Dr. was there in her bed but that the evil husband killed him while Sarah was in the bathroom getting ready for bed...they showed a man lying on his side in bed but they never showed his face...we all assume it was the evil husband waiting...that could have been the doctor lying dead...the evil hubby could have been waiting on the other side of the bed for Sarah...

I see it like this.

Austin guesses that Sarah is alive. He arranges for his car to crash by weighing down the accelerator with a huge rock and shoving it off the road.He has also drenched the interior with gasoline so the car will burn. Lucy was not in the car; Austin had left her behind at the rehearsal. The police assume Austin is in the car but they can't tell while it is burning. That's when the doctor offers to identify the body so Sarah can go home. The last scene with the doctor shows him and the police standing near the car, waiting for firefighters to extinguish the blaze. At some point, they realize no one is in the car and the doctor knows it was all a set up. He races to Sarah's house but arrives too late.

Meanwhile, Sarah returns to the house, takes a shower, and hears the front door open and close. She thinks it is the doctor. What she doesn't realize is that Austin has been in the house all along, waiting for her. He opens and closes the door so she will think someone has just come in. To save time, he is already undressed and quickly slips into the bed. She goes toward him, thinking he is the doctor. He grabs her, pulls her down roughly, and at that point she recognizes him. Screams galore. After killing her, Austin quickly gets dressed and slips out of the house. Lucy is waiting for him and they drive off into the sunset, in her car. This is when the doctor bursts into the bedroom and finds Sarah dead.