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If he kills them all at the end then why when the camera is knocked over to look at the dead daughter did her breath steam up the lense as she was clearly breathing!?

did she survive or was it bad film making?

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Yeah I was wondering that. It seemed too deliberate to be an accident, caused by bad film making though (they could have just cut it at that point).
Perhaps she survived? Personally I was most affected when the daughter was murdered so I would be happy to think that maybe she survived.

Also the slide at the start said the film was discovered at the scene of a murder. That's kind of vague and doesn't rule out the possibility that only the daughter survived. After all, the wife had clearly been assaulted when she walked in the room (blood already on her face). It hints that the husband assumed he had already killed the wife when in fact he hadn't. Maybe the same happened for the daughter.

Of course it could just mean that the daughter was alive when the camera was running but still died by the time the paramedics/police arrived. I guess that makes it all the more harrowing.

good film though. And fair play for Warp to associate themselves with it.

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It's far too obvious to have been an oversight by the filmmakers.

I think it's intended as a little glimmer of hope, although I don't think she would've survived in her semi-suffocated state beneath around 40-stone of dead weight! Unless help arrived on the scene pretty sharp'ish.

Great concept though.

Best line has to be the jovial "back in a tick" after dad's completely lost it with the family and startled them half out of their wits!

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Given what's been said in this thread, I think the final scene would have benefitted from being able to hear the daughters cheyne-stokes, which would tie in with the condensation from her breath, thus she is dying.

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It would be completely unusual to hear a Cheyne-Stokes breathing pattern after strangulation.

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