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WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?


i'm sorry. i must be really stupid, but i did NOT understand what the hell just happened in this movie.

the last like 3/4 of the movie made no sense to me.

anyone care to explain? XD

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I understood most of it, until *SPOILERS!*

they said anabell was dead...then i kinda got it again...i figured angelique took on the personality of anabell or something...but then that end bit with grace becoming anabell or something? TOTALLY CONFUSING!!!

i'm with you, sciencnut...

somebody help us?

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I guess the best way to describe this movie is that it's a story where all the three major characters are insane. Angelique suffers from a personality disorder, the doctor, who is probably angelique's father and her lover (and possibly the father of her child as well, the boy Peter that Angelique meets in the playground), demonstrates a certain lack of morality and judgment, while the reporter, Grace, has demons of her own. The flashbacks and other hints about her past suggest some psychiatric issues with her, probably related to sexual abuse as a child.

In the light of this, I think the ending should be read as follows. The doctor wishes to kill Grace but also to cure Angelique thereby dying her hair, and attempting to make Angelique 'kill' that part of her, also thus removing from himself the negative emotions that Angelique harbours towards him for having killed Annabelle. Angelique, who has obviously not come to terms with the death of her sister, sees Grace in that role, especially as Grace and her seem to share an empathic bond between them. Grace, on the other hand, is shown as being on the verge of a nervous breakdown, and the drugs and treatment meted out to her at the clinic push her over the edge, transforming her, in her own mind, into Annabelle. Both their emotional needs are fulfilled through this delusion.

Hope my take on this movie helps. Personally, I though this was a pretty decent horror flick, where the characters rather than the scares demand attention. My opinion, and it seems, hopelessly in the minority.

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I really liked this movie too. The atmosphere was perfectly creepy throughout.
Don't know why it got so badly panned but I suspect it's about something other than the quality of the movie.

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I didn't not-like it. I just didn't get it.

I'll have to watch it again with this new-found knowledge :)

thanks guys

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I think it got badly panned because it was very cheap, the plot as well as the dialogues and the acting. Sorry, but that was one of the lamest movies i've seen. Nothing makes sense, because the story is lame; and even more irritating than that, i get the feeling that the director thinks he's a genius by introducing some very shaky facts, a very lame developping plot, etc. So yeah, very very cheap...

But as a B movie, it's a perfect one! Today's era also has its Ed Wood...
Though i doubt it will once be regarded as a misunderstood gem.. :s

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Yea, I think that is the best explanation. Creepy, mediocre movie.

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Well done. You did a good job and I agree with your interpretation.

****spoilers****** I did have to suspend disbelief that after slicing her side open with a scapel, Grace and Anjelique found a way to sew themselves together. But, anyway... I enjoyed it as well. It kept me engaged and though I also kept making comparisons, I thought the twist of Grace becoming Anabelle at the end was interesting and thought it won't be up there in the legends of film making, I rated it 3 stars. It was okay, not great.

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I thought it was creepy too. I liked it.

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I may be stupid but I thought this movie ( a remake of 1973 DiPalma's "Sisters") was ridiculous. Made no sense and was a waste of time.

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They didn't sew themselves together. You can tell this by the way they come out of the door at the end. One stands in front of the other and goes out first with the other behind. They then walk like they're one unit.

I had to suspend my disbelief with the scalpel scene, too, but for a different reason. How could Angelique make such a large, DEEP incision and Grace survives? She should have bled more and bled out before they left where it was done. I mean really!

The original wasn't that good of a movie and this one was worse.





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Which of the two screenwriters is this?

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I was fine with this movie until the very end with the scalpel scene.

It seemed the writers wanted to one up DePalma by adding their own twist. It made no sense.

the original's ending was much better and befitting: Danielle is arrested for the murder of the Doctor and Grace, who was brainwashed to forget the murder, but not the story of the twins goes on with life a bit left of center.

The remake's ending was sort of forced and shallow. If Angelique was arrested or even killed this would have made better sense than the ending given to us.

Swing away, Merrill....Merrill, swing away...

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