In the ending when she's in the hospital... are we supposed to believe that she really had all these people made up in her head?? Or earlier when the actress said this would make a good movie...do you think the writers for the movie just took creative license and just wrote that part in??
And why was Ann killing those two at the very end of the movie if Lars was the real killer??
Sorry, i'm just a little confused. Thanks for the help.
A Promise is a Promise in my Eyes!
i was kinda confused about the ending also i think that she did make it up in her head, cause she was crazy
"We're sorta like 7-Eleven. We're not always doing business, but we're always open".
Sheesh! Anyone see the ending of "Wizard of Oz" ??
First, the ending of the "dream sequence" is that Lars is the killer.
The wake-up scenes reveal that Lauren's character, Chiclet, is the real killer who has been hospitalized and undergoing shock-therapy. Yet she dreams like Dorothy, "and you were there, and you were there too".
The ending of the movie pulls back into a drive-in where two scoffers are 'just glad that psycho is locked away'--"don't be so sure, darlings!" <stab, stab, stab>
The ending spoofs "The Wizard of Oz" with its unpredictable twist in black and white. It's quite unlikely that anybody would have such a detailed and long "dream". The same twist was used with comparable comic effect in the "A Fistful of Yens" segment from "The Kentucky Fried Movie".
Then, you have a second plot twist with a variation on the opening scene in the drive in and Florence being on the loose, with a cliffhanger similar to those in cheap horror movies from the era. It could be another dream for Florence or she really escaped from the institution.
Actually, neither of these two twists lead the audience to reconsider the entire movie, as it happens for instance in "Mulholland Dr.". The point is that the entire movie is a fantasy and in the end it matters little whether it's Florence, Larry Elkins or anybody else who was the killer. The "Beach Party" or "Giglet" movies were also fantasies (and completely innocent, compared to "Psycho Beach Party") with unbelievable plot elements and the twists remind us that we shouldn't expect too much from unrealistic characters.
The final twists were added for the movie version compared to the original play, in which Chiclet was played by Charles Busch in drag (he was the police officer in the movie), which made the parodic tone more obvious. And the twists wouldn't have worked on stage.
By the way, if you enjoyed this movie, try "Lord Loves A Duck" from 1963. It's arguably a better deconstruction of the whole "Beach Party" movies.
This movie is based on a play, and in that play they acknowledge her having split-personality disorder and Bettina (the actress) claims that this would make a great movie - the one that will win her an Oscar.
However, in the play, there are no murders. Ann simply desires "world domination" and is notorious for shaving her victims completely bald ("even down there"). She shares her desires with Kanaka and claims that she wants to build a giant cage, lock everyone in it, break their spirits, and turn them into her slaves. Hope this helps.
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Wow. The show REALLY IS different from the movie.
My friend who wants to direct the show on stage is gonna be heartbroken to learn this (he's seen the movie and not read the play).
You will be greatly missed, Heath Ledger...
You will be greatly missed, Heath Ledger...
I always took the black-and-white ending to be from the movie that Bettina Barnes made from the "real" events — just as the black-and-white beginning (before the opening titles) was supposed to be from an earlier Bettina Barnes B-movie.
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But that still left Florence in the back of the car with a knife at the end.
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