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Ending Question *SPOILERS*


So I just finished this movie and thought it was pretty badass. I gave it an 8.5/10. I was told it was a pretty good Siege Horror movie, but I didn't know it would also involve themes of revenge, which makes it even more awesome.

Anyways, enough about my opinion on the film, I do have a question about the film, and here is where the spoilers start and I will not be using spoiler tags as I'm pretty sure I've made myself clear that this thread is spoilers haha.
At the very end of the film one of the brothers goes off to start killing more of the crazy supernatural zombies. The other brother, however, goes off to the house that they burned down and sees the big stone slab that gave the nazi power and stands on top of it smirking evilly. Does that mean that he is evil now? What's your opinion or does anyone have a definitive answer?

One last thing, I've read that Schumacher changed a ton of the final script that was used for the film. I know some of you on here collect scripts and was wondering if anyone had the original script Kajganich wrote and if I could get a copy. It would be greatly appreciated [] .

What the devil is going on heeeeere?! Woah déjà vu...
-Snape, AVPM

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I took it that at the ending the younger brother ran off with the map and weapons to hunt the other zombie/nazis while the older brother went back to the burnt up farm to study the rune stone and try to claim it's power for himself. I guess if the movie did well enough, and a sequel was made, the brothers would have to face each other someday. That would have been a really good idea for the sequel if it ever got made.

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"I took it that at the ending the younger brother ran off with the map and weapons to hunt the other zombie/nazis while the older brother went back to the burnt up farm to study the rune stone and try to claim it's power for himself. I guess if the movie did well enough, and a sequel was made, the brothers would have to face each other someday. That would have been a really good idea for the sequel if it ever got made."


I never got any inkling that Victor wanted to use the rune stone for himself. I just thought they wanted to show that everything in the fire was destroyed but the rune stone remained unharmed. But that is an interesting idea. I could kind of see a sequel coming out of this. Worse and less successful movies have had sequels. But obviously, Cavill won't be back since his star power is growing by leaps and bounds now.

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FWIW, I also was left with the opinion that the older brother was going over to the dark side and wanted to use the power of the rune stone himself.

Otherwise, there was no real point to the voice over at the end.

It also fits in with the older brother standing off by himself and brooding at his welcome home party, and not going on the hunt with the younger one.

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It's ambiguous. He could be doing either.

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I thought the same thing. I think the brother realized he could live forever and wanted that for himself.

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As the young will make war against the evil, the elder wants to seize the power of the runes for himself.The eternal struggle of good against evil...

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IMO, the ending really didn't make much sense. It is heavily implied that at all the other runestone locations the exact same thing happened, i.e. a Nazi on the rise to become some unstoppable evil force, but then being somehow trapped or otherwise kept from achieving the final steps - else we would have heard about Nazi-zombie-Gods roaming the streets. I find it VERY improbable that the same thing like here happened elsewhere (someone stealing his books, figuring out what is going on and how to trap them with runes, but for some unknown reason keeping feeding them to keep them alive, just not enough to become too powerful).
Chances are, our paramedic-turned-superhero finds some long forgotten farm with exactly nothing going on, or there is now a Walmart parking lot where a runestone was buried, etc.
And yeah, the brother standing at the ruins with the runestone didn't make much sense either. It can't be that he tries to make use of it himself, as all the books are gone, which basically means there is no instruction manual left, and all the others who might have known a bit about it are dead. He himself knew *beep* else he would've known what was really going on, instead he thought they were just a bunch of wackos who were getting off on torturing people.
Dramatic, suggestive shots that make absolutely zero sense in the context of the movie. Also, to repeat the exact same narration as in the beginning was kinda bothersome; first, we haven't accidentally forgotten what was happening, and second - as said above - it's utterly unlikely the same happened elsewhere, so there's no reason to go back to the beginning.

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I just rewatched this and have the same confusion about the ending. I totally get the younger brother, Evan, going off and hunting the others, if they are still around. But, the older brother, Vic, I'm at a loss to his motivations, other than he knows that his younger brother will need help and it's not a one man job, because it really shouldn't be. It could be that Evan is trying to find out what is going on in the other areas and if he finds another one, he'll call Vic for back up and Vic is thinking about giving these things more payback.

OTOH, I can see where they tried to make it seem like Vic wanted the immortality but that goes completely against what we know about his character. Unless they are trying to say that he had a major psychotic break after being tortured so long which is very possible. But that would be a shame to do to the man who came back to end it all.

I really hate when movies leave this sort of thing so ambiguous. It leaves me with a very unsatisfied feeling that counters the decent movie I just watched.

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I think everyone's reading way too much into the ending and Vic's motives for returning. He wanted revenge for being tortured for two years and when he finally learns why he was kept prisoner for so long he gets his revenge at long last. The only reason he goes back to the burnt our farm is to make sure everything is gone! Him looking at the rune stone is just him looking at a rune stone and wondering how could that have given someone evil immortality. He wasn't thinking about trying to harness the power for himself or anything so nefarious. He just wanted closure on the whole mess and needed to see for himself that no traces of the evil remained.

It is like a finger pointing towards the moon.

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