Ending Ruined The Whole Film
For me anyway, the ending was complete BS.
shareAgreed. It was sh**! Made no sense whatsoever.
shareHe died and became a ghost. The ghost world = the mirror world. What's not to understand?
me.
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I completely disagree, but thank you for expressing your opinion in more than one declarative sentence (if that) as if no other explanation or argumentation is needed (i.e. "this movie sucks", "the ending is crap"). So many IMDB , like the OP,do that and it's really irritating.
You seem to be bemoaning the lack of logic, the ambiguity, and the failure of the movie wrap everything into a nice package. Well, horror movies don't need to be completely logical, there's absolutely nothing wrong with ambiguity, and the nice-little-package Hollywood ending is highly overrated. I found the final scene to be a terrifying vision of a hellish afterlife where you are just left ALONE in a kind of limbo for all eternity. It actually reminded me of Lucio Fulci's "The Beyond", which is far more non-sensical than this, but even more powerful. They're both far better though than the usual Hollywood horror fare.
The actual final scene was good, but the dumb hollywood action sequence that came before was pure garbage and laughably bad. A shame as the movie started out great and was pretty interesting but the terrible second half (which what really ruined the whole film) was basically a cop out. But yeah, decent final scene if nothing else but personally if it was gonna end how it did I would have liked some answers.
Aja's High Tension was a much better film.
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I got the ending alright, but I do agree with the rest of your comments.
I actually decided to try it because Kiefer S. was in it, so I thought it would be at least a decent watch.
The premise was good, but the film could have been SO much better, and I think spookier if the filmmakers hadn't resorted to jumpscares and some fairly typical and mediocre use of special effects.
I would like to see the original film.
~~ If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story ~ Orson Welles
ending was garbage
they didn't explain why the mirrors killed people, they didn't explain anything
all they said was the mirrors were evil and collected souls...
why'd they need anna, why'd they need to kill in the first place?
It was all explained in the film.
When Anna was a child, she was possessed by a demon, but Dr. Kane didn't believe in demon possession. He believed he had a method that could cure her. Remember the first doctor's explanation about a classic theory on personality disorders? That people struggle with their identity that had split into two worlds: reality and mirror?
Using that theory, Dr. Kane believed that putting Anna in a dome of mirrors would force her to look at herself. Keep doing it until she learns to accept her 'mirror self' as her 'reality self'; putting two split personalities back together as one personality.
It cured her, but not in a way Dr. Kane later realised. During one session, the demon within her had escaped into mirrors, which cured her. The hospital then released her. Three days later, the demon in mirrors made inmates to kill themselves (so that the demon could collect their souls).
Dr. Kane realised there was a connection between Anna's 'mirror cure' and the massacre. He amended the records to make it seem as if she had died along with the others in the massacre. (The film didn't explain why he decided to hide her existence.) The mirror demon got him in the end.
Meanwhile, the demon tried to kill Anna and her family at their home, forcing the family to put her in a monastery where there would be no mirror anywhere.
While the demon was killing people over decades, victims tried to get various night watchmen to find Anna. They left messages of Anna's surname, hand prints and reflections of their torture or death through mirrors. Just so that one of the guys could bring Anna back to end the demon's killing spree and to release their souls. Because Anna was a physical door between reality and the mirror world. The demon got them before they could find her by killing the guys' families and eventually them, too.
Anna was put in the dome of mirrors to force the demon to leave the mirror world into her body, so that Ben could kill her/demon in the real world. Once it was in her body, all mirrors exploded, setting victims' souls free as the demon no longer had the control over their souls.
Ben ended up in the mirror world because he was killed in the real world. While he wouldn't be tortured by the demon like victims had been over decades, he was trapped in the mirror world/afterlife. He'll have to find a way to release his soul, but only if someone would finally take notice of his existence on the other side.
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Thanks, Zerose. A great explanation that was sorely needed(I was doing chores during the movie). All in all, I really liked it, despite the fact I already had a thing about mirrors! The only weak spot for me was the fight scene were he battled the demon. That just looked bad and seemed out of character with the rest of the movie.
shareApplause for Zerose.
Well, done. And thanks.... any lingering questions I had, you just went an answered.
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I actually liked the ending. It was different than the usual. I thought it was a pretty clever ending.
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