i didn't get it (major spoilers)
I'M TALKING ABOUT EVERY ASPECT I HATED ABOUT THIS FILM (THAT MEANS PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING, INCLUDING THE END) SO DON'T READ IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT.
okay, so i just finished watching it. i gave it a 2 out of 10 for a few reasons:
i hated how they actually put flashes of how people would die right in the opening credits. then right before the guy would kill someone, once again, we'd see a flash of the dead person.
i thought the flm wasn't that gory. besides the father being *opened* (which the horror fan/sadist in myself enjoyed ALOT), i was hoping to be a lot more disgusted. Maybe i've watched too many gore films and i got used to it, but the films left me wanting more. but when i see a DVD box with a trashy white background and an arm covered in blood holding a heart, i expect something trashy, brutal, gory, sadist and disturbing (The Hills Have Eyes (2006) disturbing). i was completely unscared, uncreeped and unsatisfied while watching it.
why did the bad guy want HER? why her? because nobody understands her? go to any high school and you can find hundreds of kids that have the same issues she has.
Walter's two first conversations consist of A) who do you think stabbed me? a white man in a 3-piece suit! B) right! you see a black guy with a PSP who got stabbed and you think he stole it! Which is the bigger stereotype: white people think black people are thieves OR the paranoid black guy? you decide! I couldn't wait for him to mention how the black guy dies first in horror flicks.
and here we go, the ending. i seriously didn't get it. maybe i missed the explanation because i admit it, i got really bored watching it and i rolled my eyes a lot (maybe i was rolling my eyes when they showed the explanation).
are you serious? the bad guy gets killed by a thunder? a thunder that was coming after him? what thunder? why a thunder? where did it come from? did i miss something? was it a GOOD versus EVIL film? that would mean good forces came to defeat evil? when you need a deus ex machina to save the day in a film with such a simple story you should AT LEAST try to explain it.