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Did the writers go braindead? Spoilers.


What the hell was up with the ending of this films, did the writers just go braindead and decide "Oh, let's turn Drew Barrymoore's character into a freakin' monster!" The film was okay but damn that ending is just so not associated with the film.

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Agree - I couldn't believe the ending, it seemed like another movie had been mistakenly spliced onto this one, I was just stunned by the absurdity of it all. I thought maybe this was supposed to have been somebody's dream, but it wasn't. Whoever wrote this script must have seen the French-Polish film "Possession" with Isabelle Adjani, but the intelligence and psychological depth of that one is completely missing in Doppelganger.

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I just saw this movie for the first time, and I was wondering what the hell was going on during the end. The only logical thing I could come up with is that, the writer/director asked himself, "What can I do to totally throw off people who are watching this? A twist that nobody saw coming? I got it!!! I'll turn this Thriller into a Horror movie. Everybody thinks it's a Thriller for the entire movie. Let's throw a curve ball, and turn it into a Body Horror-flick!".

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The bloody skeletons had boobs LOL!

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The climax is unlikely in a Scooby-Doo kind of way and, then, outlandish in a Hellraiser kind of way. Writer/director Avi Nesher obviously wanted to shake things up for the last act. Although confusing, I suppose the revelations make sense: Those who abused and manipulated Holly for their own selfish ends -- her father and her doctor -- unknowingly caused what happens to her.

Yet two mysteries remain:

- Just because the doctor puts on a mask, wig & apparel of Holly, it wouldn't make his body feminine and alluring, like hers. He'd still have his skinny male physique. Not to mention it wouldn't shrink his height to Holly's petite stature.
- When Holly splits into two entities on the couch, why are they shaped like tall, thin alien-looking monsters? Wouldn't they more naturally look like her with one relatively normal and the other darker?

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