I'm somewhat confused. Was Ellen controlling the house or was the house simply talking through Ellen?
Also wouldn't tearing down the house and building condos simply result in the condos being haunted or were all the ghosts somehow tied to the house itself and not the land?
It was the land that was evil, the house was then build and it used that evil to trap people as spirits, Ellen was just a tool of the house's evil that was coming from the land. So yes, technically when the Condo's got built they would have the same evil the Rimbauer house did, but everyone just thought it was the house that was purely evil, and thus they thought destroying it would stop everything.
shareOh, no. I feel a sequel coming. 'Red Rose: Condo Edition.'
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Actully there was a story written online about the Techstar Condo's being haunted :)
shareI know it's been a long time and you may not care any more, but I just finished reading the fictional diary that is about this movie. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diary_of_Ellen_Rimbauer:_My_Life_at_Rose_Red)
From the book, I got the idea that it was BOTH the house, Rose Red, and Ellen who were bad. She was dabbling in the dark arts so to speak and the house was possessed by some dark force. The indian burial grounds were just a red herring. At one point in the book, it is (sort of) explained that the ghost of the indian was trying to stop the house from being built. It made me think of In Cold Blood when the judge explains why both men are guilty instead of just Perry. He said that alone they would not have done such a terrible thing, but together they were more evil (or something close to that). I think the same could be said of Rose Red and Ellen.