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Did Mena forget what he wrote in Malevolence (spoiler)?


First off, I really liked the movie. It was mean, it was atmospheric, it had emotion when it was needed and there was a hopeless sense of loss that you could feel throughout the movie.

The only problem I had with it was the way Sutter was killed. It doesn't match up with what we were told in Malevolence. When the detective was reading Sutter's old journal entries, he quotes them talking about how Sutter knows Martin is "going to do it tonight" and that he can hear him in his closet. He says Martin has gotten too strong and he doesn't know if he'll be able to fight him off. It was pretty creepy, but none of it matches what happened at the end of Bereavement. Martin is still a kid when he kills Sutter, Sutter was not writing in his journal at the time, and Martin wasn't in his closet.

It's just an unfortunate plot hole in an otherwise great movie.

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I was thinking the same thing as I watched the end of Bereavement. But given that Sutter's father's body is apparently still under wraps in his bedroom, and also that Sutter mentioned his father "didn't run" from his death because he "didn't feel betrayed" by his son or that he "had it coming," I'm led to believe that some of the journal entries belonged to the father prior to his own death at Sutter's hand(the journal entry also specifically mentioned the bedroom closet).

Since I haven't watched Malevolence in a bit, I can't say with certainty that my theory is correct. I really don't remember if a specific name or year is mentioned in the journal to narrow it all down.

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good thinkin there eric..i think u nailed it..makes sense to me..

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I noticed that as well, but there was enough we hadn't seen where it could fit in without a lot of trouble.

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