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Let's discuss THE ENDING MAJOR SPOILERS

posted 19 years ago by NateF88
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Here are my possible two interpretations of the ending:

1) "Kolobos", simply put, is Kyra's alternate personality. Her schizophrenic condition was never treated (she never did live in a mental hospital) and is getting out of control. Therefore, the events in the film never happened, and the only reason why she was wondering the streets in the beginning was because
"Kolobos" told her to cut up her face and her body and wonder the streets. Eventually at the end, "Kolobos" tells her to actually put an add in the paper for the Big Brother type TV show, and the events in the film will actually happen, except Kyra will be the killer who kills the five people off, in her "Kolobos" personality.

2) The events in the film actually did happen, except Kyra was the killer in her "Kolobos" personality. She just gave the wrong address for the house and that's why the nurse said there is no evidence that her story is true. She was wondering the streets at the end because her "Kolobos" personality traumatized her to cut her face and her body. The images on the television screen were only holucinations. When Erica said her and Chris never met the investor for the project, it was Kyra who invested in it. Her telephone call at the end means that another Big Brother type event will happen, and she will kill them off as her "Kolobos" personality again, at her house this time.

If I had to choose which one would make more sense, I would choose my first interpretation, because if the events actually did happen like in the second interpretation, there would be a couple of plot holes, like what happened to the people at the halfway house where Kyra lived and how she was able to afford getting the whole resort to herself. Also the first interpretation makes sense because Kyra's drawings helped shape the story in her mind.

Does anybody agree with these? Does anybody have any other interpretations?

[–] har_mar_superstar2 19 years ago

yeh umm i would go with the second, and frankly i havent really put much thought into the movie because well......it was f u c k e d , not sayin it was a bad movie or anything though.

you dont know heat until youve spent several hours inside a giant condom

[–] glevering 19 years ago

I would add that Kyra was taking medication. we see her roomate unpacking her stuff, Kyra becomes embaressed and storms in the bathroom. As the movie plays through there are times when she seeks her meds. When she panics her paranoia continues, making her imagination with Kolobos more surreal. The nurse under stands her completely and sees that she needs help. Otherwise the ending really belongs to her drawings and tortured self. This movie compares in suspense to /Identity 2003 with John Cusack and Ray Liotta.

[–] dominator2004-2005 19 years ago

i have an ending too. faceless owned the house, and the stuff really did happen, and the ideas from the killings came from kyra's scrapbook, from when she was asleep and her notebook dropped. in the end, kolobos spirit gets inside her body and as she is already unstable, she listens to it. there have probably been a few people before kyra and faceless, all whom have owned the house, all with the spirit of Kolobos.

notice the murders did not occur until faceless sees kyra's scrapbook.

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[–] dominator2004-2005 19 years ago

shut up u idiot, its not as if u contributed to the convo. makin fun o mi name? *beep* off

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[–] elite_vagabond 19 years ago

y u guys so retarded? were talkin about a *beep* movie, not ppls names, if ya got nufin to say bout it, *beep*
i agree wid dominator on his endin

[–] enterthemoose 19 years ago

What I don't get is didn't Erica say she was in on it. And what about the director guy?

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[–] Kolobos51 19 years ago

NateF88 is dead on with his first interpertation. Kolobos, or Faceless, is Kyra's split personality. Remember her "It's only me" line at the end. She has not been living in a half way house, although she may have at one time. My guess is she has rich parents who put her up in her own place (I assume she was rich because that house at the end she lived in was huge and she did not seem old enough or stable enough to have the kind of job that would pay for it) and they assumed that she would keep on her medication but, for whatever reason, she stopped. She went crazy and cut up her own face with the razor covered in dry blood she finds in her bathroom at the end of the movie. At the end of the movie, she realizes the fantasy she had, inspired by her own art work, which was made up by her to avoid admitting she had a problem (the fantasy being the whole Big Brother thing in the house) was something she could actually do in her home with her money following the same plot Faceless/Kolobos had used in her fantasy, meaning she would find a team of struggling Hollywood types to run it for her and never come in direct contact with them. This is based on not only her phone call at the end of the movie putting the Big Brother ad in the newspaper, but by the way she walks around her house looking at the locations of the killings in her fantasy as compared to actual places in her own that inspired her.(the shower, the hunting trophy room, etc.)
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There are several reasons that what happened in her fantasy could not have actually happened. First, how would the director running all the cameras not have noticed freaky looking Faceless wondering around the house, especially in the scene where he is hiding under Kyra's bed. But fine, even if Faceless was not really there and it was all Kyra, the "security" devices in the home, such as the blade in the kitchen and claw that nearly cuts the actress's foot off were too advanced for Kyra or Faceless or anybody to have been able to get at all. Seriously, the claw knew exactly when and where to pop out of the wall to grab the woman, just not possible. Neither is the scene where the acid is shooting out of the shower head and frying the film geek but not whoever drags him out of it to smash his head in against the sink.

[–] mongrail99 19 years ago

americanpsyco's explanation is excellent, and comes to prove that although Kolobos is not the best horror movie it has some very interesting ideas and concepts. I also enjoyed the editing and music.

I also like to add that I believe that Kyra is a successful artist that became very rich selling her paintings, and in the movie she is just getting to the point where she would draw sketches of murders, and then she would try to recreate them with real people, and then arrange the corpses in a very artistic fashion, as we see at the end of the movie, in the basement. Her art would be something like Gunther von Hagens' 'BodyWorlds' or Saatchi's 'Sensations'

[–] xanderdean-1 12 years ago

I like what your saying but.. didn't the Woman in the hospital bed read out the newspaper ad trigging the flashbacks? So maybe there is a 'Faceless' that picks people with Kyra's 'talents' and runs the shows for them?

[–] rhythem-and-police 19 years ago

First I must say that you have some very good insight on the film. Obviously you weren't like most of the people I know who've seen this movie, considering that they'd rather claim it horrible because it actually makes you think.
I find the second scenario more likely; I believe that the sequence of events in the house really did happen... It's just a question of -when- it took place.

[–] kmsc2c 19 years ago

I just watched this movie last night, and I understood it. Everything that occured in the flashback scenes took place in Kyra's head. After she is released from the hospital she makes plan to make her fantasies real. This movie went straight to video because it was to complicated for the average slasher/horror fan. NateF88's first explaination seems to be the correct interpretation of the film

[–] Found_Nezha 19 years ago

i think the bb style events did happen, which is why she was slashed herself and ended up in hospital (the faceless wotsit is probably an alterego but frankly i'm not bothered either way.

then once released, returned to the house to start the sequence again in the good old fashioned horror tradition!

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[–] logandarko 18 years ago

I think the events happen and she kill the others. Why? Because the blonde girl (the actress) take her drawings with her hands stained with blood, and at the end when the girl killer goes to her house, the drawings are in an easel with the blood stains of the blonde girl. And the kitchen trapp exists, is not a dream.

[–] Paul_Bearer 12 years ago

(2) is impossible. A petite girl like her rigging the whole house (including metal covering the whole house that's invisible from the outside when they move in, here the movie was just stupid), killing everyone, chopping up the corpses and moving them around, and all of that done very quickly - just doesn't work.

Interpretation (1) basically says that everything was a dream/hallucination, and that is always the cheapest, worst way out in movies.

What a stupid, cheap flick that was.

[–] Charlie_Foxtrot_Company 12 years ago

Another thing that makes the BB scenario impossible is the fact that when Erica was escaping into the basement, the door was locked behind her as the killer was chasing her but somehow he reappeared inside the room with her.
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Let's discuss THE ENDING *MAJOR SPOILERS*

Let's discuss THE ENDING MAJOR SPOILERS