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holy sh!t what an ending (spoilers ahead)

posted 18 years ago by philopitz
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*!spoilers throughout!*

holy sh!t what a surprising and mindbogglingly terrifying ending. I've been through plenty of horror movie endings, but this one caught me off-guard. Here's the kid, the blood-covered boy, who is the main force of devastation throughout the movie. He's unstoppable, all-powerful, and merciless. We see him walk away, I expected him to vanish, and out of fncking nowhere, he gets absolutely murdered by whatever that thing was (i presume helen). Just let me reiterate that point: the all-powerful monster of the movie gets killed in less than a second out of nowhere. Wow. holy fnck. that was some unexpected turn of things.

[–] tenderluvher 18 years ago

how the hell does the bloody boy get killed when he was splattered all over the place by the bus and doesn't die?

[–] lazyoli 18 years ago

good question.
people seem to have illusions about the boy. he can vanish pretty quickly. remember when he was on the grill of the bus? next moment he was gone.
also one living dead can of course kill another living dead. :)))
didn't you know?

[–] philopitz 18 years ago

yea, but just like that? I mean, the boy didn't even have the faintest chance. that's some living evil dead superwoman if you ask me.

[–] lazyoli 18 years ago

that's why i don't ask you.
just kidding.
yeah that's a weak point in the story, i have to admit that, but believe me i've seen worse.

[–] sleizman88 18 years ago

so that thing at the end was Hellen?

What Does Marsellus Wallace look like?

[–] DavidStHubbinsUSA 14 years ago

"What Does Marsellus Wallace look like?"

"What!?"

[–] Diabolicael 14 years ago

I liked it. I jumped a little (just a little) and I almost never jump during a horror/thriller movie. It wasn't particularly frightening or anything, but it was totally unexpected.

You got red on you.
--That was longer than a heartbeat.

[–] chillaxer 14 years ago

i thought it was dumb. i mean how can he die if hes a compilation of a bunch of dead people already? i guess now hes SUPER dead?

[–] Diabolicael 14 years ago

Well, if you want to get technical you could say that the energy that had been animating the golem (the boy), which had been controlled by the combined residual/ post-mortem intellect of the murder victims, had been negated or forcibly dispursed by the new, malevolent entity. There; does that make you feel better about the wording?

You got red on you.
--That was longer than a heartbeat.

[–] tajreme 14 years ago

I think it was a cheap shock value ending, nothing more. Spoiled the spirit of the film, actually. What should have happened was the avenged golem would have simply vanished; or not been seen from again in the film.

Helen was not a murder victim but the murderer so she would have had no claim to come back... (Note: It was also difficult to believe she had the strength to pull off the murders in the way they were committed).

The end was just typical late 90's early 2000's horror movie endings that always have to have the "Carrie" effect (as in a hand coming out of a grave, a baby monster to the big dead monster, some left over ghost, etc). Gives credence to a sequel. Oh and it made ya jump, right??

[–] kerryrea 12 years ago

Maybe because he completed his task, whoever made the bloody people to get their revenge also made a creature to force them to pass on.