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*SPOILER**The ending

posted 15 years ago by Reservoir69
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Ok, so the wife was the witch at the end. So when did she transfer into the witch? When she put on the ring? Or before when she was frisky and wanted to get pregnant again? Or did she take over the wife when the husband was out of the way in a mental ward?

Were the old lady, the neighbor and the neighbor's son all conjured and not real? Was the dog really killed or conjured to look dead? The furniture at the end looked like the furniture at the beginning when they were looking at the house. Does that mean that the old lady was taken over by the witch too? I'm so confused. Please give your interpretations.

[–] hawthornhigh 15 years ago

I definitely think the witch was slowly using the husband's inherited instability to drive him over the edge and once he was gone, then the wife changing would not be obvious to anyone and give a chance for her to come to full term. I don't think she was really possessed before that, not until she was murmuring in her sleep when the husband came home from seeing the sick cow. I'm sure the neighbors are real and so is the old guy who sold the property. The dead mother is something I was thinking the most about. If she wasn't part of the witch's mind tricks then maybe she was reaching out from beyond the grave to help them avoid what others have experienced with the witch wanting a baby. I didn't pick up on the furniture being the same, I will have to go back and look again.

[–] karaktakus99 15 years ago

i really liked this ending because it makes you think & isn't your typical Hollywood pat ending. i watched with some friends and we made cases for different interpretations. all agreed that at the end the wife is possessed by the spirit of the witch, but what about the husband? what is unclear is to what degree he experienced his own schizophrenic breakdown, or to what degree the witch crawled into his mind. and what about the old lady? were his encounters w/ her a) a schizophrenic hallucination, b) a delusion caused by the witch, or even c) an actual warning from the departed old lady to warn him of a very real danger?? i like the fact that there is no easy answer! i always like movies that leave things a bit open-ended and open to discussion

[–] lehnrik 15 years ago

Totally agree! I mean, you won't exactly get scared from a movie if you always understand everything.

[–] Cryxen 15 years ago

I think that the ending was to make the viewer question his own reality concerning the film. By showing the wife in such a state the viewer goes over past events and tries to determine if they're real, this puts the viewer in the shoes of the husband perfectly.

When everybody stinks, nobody smells.

[–] belleandguaca 15 years ago

I think endings like this are a cop out. To me, it makes the whole movie a waste because it was all in his mind. The one glance from the wife at the end isn't enough to fully convince me she was taken over by the witch. They just want to get people wondering and thinking.

[–] TheManLadiesLove 15 years ago

Bottom line: this movie was the dumbest movie I have seen in a long while. It doesn't make me think @ all. Correction: it makes me think about how stupid these characters are for not communicating with each other about the little things that were going on in their lives (the little "dirt shrine" with the teeth in it, she didn't mention the snake, where she got the ring from, the dead dog & on & on & on...). I wasted 1 1/2 hrs watching this crap. It sucked & I didn't like it @ all, bottom line.

[–] dragonkings01 15 years ago

I didn't care for the movie,
I thought the ending was lame, very predictable and no real story in the end.

Could of been much better, But I'm glad some people liked it b/c I really wanted to but the ending was just such a let down to me.

[–] paisley1 14 years ago

Important Note to Others Here: I haven't checked this movie out so please take this into consideration with regards to my response.

While I am at a loss with regards to the "dirt shrine" with teeth in it and the snake the wife supposedly didn't share with her husband, I can honestly say I have many pieces of heirloom and antique jewelry that's been passed through generations that my husband's either rarely seen or never seen; however, he knows I have various heirlooms and antiques though not necessarily all jewelry. I have an antique oil lamp passed through four generations of family (as far as I know there is only the four generations). The antique lamp was a wedding gift each time and I am the last to have it. My oldest is getting married later this year but the lamp won't be going with her b/c she has yet to learn the real meaning of taking care of items that are considerably older than she is by a few generations. I gave her a pair of heirloom, not yet antique but definitely heirloom earrings she lost inside of about 6-months. Her ability to keep up with things such as that has not grown over the years. There is also a rocking chair that was given as a gift at the baby shower of the first-born child of 3 generations that I am aware of though it may be older. It needs some repairs and a fix from where someone in the past attempted to repair it but made the problem worse. It also needs refinishing as long as it won't detract from the value. There is also a trunk like a small version of a steamer trunk that won't be going anywhere anytime soon not to mention various pieces of jewelry including complete sets though none will ever come close to my heart as the piece that was stolen by a boy who lived a few doors down from us. He stole my grandmother's strand of pearls that were supposed to go to me on my 16th birthday but never did because of that greedy bastard. The pawn shop supposedly couldn't trace where they went so they are lost to me and have been since I was about 14 years old. Thank goodness for burglar alarms... Wouldn't leave home or stay home without it...

So, as you can tell, I wouldn't think twice about a husband not noticing new jewelry. Besides, before our current financial issues w/ DH not being able to work anymore due to health problems, I would occasionally buy jewelry without his knowing it. I don't give him the 411 on everything I buy or have purchased over the years & neither has he. It's just the way we are as I am sure other couples are as well.

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[–] khazmir 14 years ago

I watched it this morning, but I have it set up on my DVR to record later today. I missed so much of the beginning that a lot of the ending did not make sense to me.

From a "missed a good bit of the beginning" perspective, the wife looks possessed by the spirit of the witch and appears to have been for a while. I have never been shot at, but I feel relatively certain that if my husband fired off a shotgun at me in a dark room in the middle of the night that I would not be standing upright staring at him with bullet fragments (or whatever the source of the blood spots were) on my shoulder. I did not think the husbands hallucinations were the result of an inherited condition.

Given that the only thing I know about the ring is that I saw him twist it on his finger and have no idea when cows were sick, then a re-watch is in order. So, that is why I am going to watch it again from the beginning. I like movies with endings that can be interpreted in different ways, but I can already see that there will not be enough resolution to satisfy me here.

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[–] lathe-of-heaven 7 years ago

Hmmm... Well, the ONLY thing for me that doesn't quite make any sense is the mother of the guy who sold the house to them. HE said that she was living with him and HE said that she had an appointment. And yet, the sheriff said that she had died a year ago...

Soooooo, was the previous owner just making all that up about his mother...? If so, WHY...? Doesn't really quite make sense. Why didn't he just say from the beginning that his mother died and he was selling the home?

What was the point of the deception...?

I think I will make this a separate thread to see what others think.

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