saw this online.. makes sense.. hopefully someone will read it and comment back soon
Who committed the murders?
This is my reasoning.
1. It could NOT have been the British guy who confessed, because another video arrived after he was incarcerated.
2. It could not have been the intern acting alone, since we saw him being hit over the head with a hammer in front of the producer.
3. It could not have been the ambitious female reporter acting alone, since (1) we saw her being kidnapped from the laundromat by the stalker (2) we saw her being photographed in a secret lesbian rendezvous by the stalker, not with a tripod set-up, but by a hand-held camera, so she could not have done it herself.
4. All the bodies were found except those of the intern and the female reporter.
5. The disappearance of the intern's body makes no sense. The intern and the producer fell near each other, within seconds of one another. How could his body disappear, but not hers?
6. We never saw anything violent happening to the female reporter.
7. Therefore, I conclude that the intern must be alive and that he and the female reporter must have committed the murders together as a team.
* It seems certain that the killer's lair was her childhood house, for two reasons: (1) it was obviously a girl's room, filled with dolls and books about knitting and such (2) the block of small, identical pictures on the wall appears to be the actual, small-sized high school yearbook pictures of Rachel Leigh Cook, albeit with her natural dark hair color instead of the blond wig she wore in the film. (Rachel played the reporter.)
* The stalker's peeping, the complicated video set-up, and the need to photograph every moment of everything certainly seemed to match his behavior rather than hers.
8. I did not understand the significance of the killer's dog, who finally clawed his way into the house, then was dropped from the action altogether. It certainly seemed that the dog's behavior toward the intruders would identify which person really belonged in the murderer's house, but if that was ever intended in the script, it was abandoned in the final edit.
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