i didn't get this movie at all

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1) In the book, the old people have sent her in to create jealousy so that Jackie starts jogging. I guess in the film you're meant to assume she's part of their plan.

2) In the book, 'the glow' is what you get when you achieve the peak level of fitness and health. That's when they need to get your blood.

3) Again, in the book, the pink drink is just vitamins etc and at one point, it contains a sedative. They extract the blood in the basement and we don't see how they injest it.

READ THE BOOK. The film totally lost the point of the whole story.

You're obviously a child (under 30)

Children in this decade don't ever "get" anything.

Allow me to enlighten you...

The woman was sent in to make Jackie think Matt was cheating. That was apparent in when he went in and couldn't find her, She'd done her job and was moved on, the old people paid for that place just for the time she was needed.

When 2 people are newlyweds, and happy, and healthy, we (OLD PEOPLE TO YOU) have for decades referred to it as having "the glow"... This was the entire premise. (Premise means plot, by the way) that the young newlyweds have this "glow" about them, that produces a hormone that the old folks learned to bottle out of the blood. They were health obsessed because the "Glow" is also stronger in those who work out and keep active and thin (Endorphins... what makes you "feel good" when you work out) are probably connected as well.

Third, I can't believe you didn't "get" this part. It DID show what they were doing... Phoebe was drinking the "Pink drink" at the end, and said to Jackie: "Want some? It's MATT Flavored"... Proof right there that they had harmed him to make it. So yes they "actually said there was young blood in it"...

Hope this clears it up for you, and since you don't really care about this film, go back to playing Halo or some other brainless VG now.

I saw this movie last night and the two main issues I had with it were: (1) if the old people were using the drink (and young people's blood) to maintain their youth then how come they're old? You would expect for the drink/ritual/whatever to make them visibly younger. I think it would've worked better if, after the first couple vanished they claimed that a couple of their group died and have a new couple come in who would've really been the older people made young. Then maybe one of them could've had a birthmark or tattoo or something the wife could've noticed that would've further made her suspicious of what was happening. I get that whatever they did made them live long and kept them RELATIVELY young, just seems the effects could've been more dramatic. (2) the choice to have all the exposition at the end happen through the wife's fog. To me it made it really hard to understand a good deal of what they were saying. It's a nice effect but it's seems clumsy to explain the movie in a way that makes it hard to understand.

As a bonus I question why the retired cop, the psychiatrist and the medical doctor got off free and clear. The young couple encountered them. Their actions implicate them in the murders. I guess they could claim they were doing what they were doing to help out their old friends and that they didn't know about the killings and there probably was no direct evidence to tie them to the crimes but I'm not sure that an ex-cop representing themselves as an active cop and giving misinformation (which is designed to cover up murders), a doctor sharing privileged medical information with third parties (he told the old people she was having a baby when she expressly told him not to) or a psychiatrist who was (presumably) sharing confidential information with third parties wouldn't get into at least SOME trouble.

Of course I'm sure that bit was added as the traditional "leave the door open for another movie" ending.