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I need help with this one *Spoilers*


Spoilers ahead. So, I usually think that I pay attention and try to follow stories well but, with this one, I don’t understand what happened at the end of the movie. Can anyone explain it to me?

We had goop in a jar, a diabetic son, a witch~ish mother, and… some squirmy root baby. At the end the witch mom is naked in the woods, the mob hung the son, and the parole officer was holding a new baby. I don’t understand. If anyone could help I would appreciate it.

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I'll try 🙂 The new baby was the baby that Cathy's ex-husband's wife gave birth to shortly after he was killed. She was having a hard time coping as a new mom so Cathy was helping her. The end scene was a little ambiguous. Obviously the witch is still trying to have power over Cathy, especially that there's a baby, but I don't think Cathy will permit. I think she's strong enough to fight her off. It's just a shame the witch wasn't killed.

Edit: Obviously Mary was a witch and needed to sacrifice children in order to carry out whatever diabolical plans she had. It never did explain exactly what the end results would be, aside from Cathy having a devil baby, which didn't happen, so don't be so hard on yourself for not completely getting it.

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Were the baby's eyes black? I couldn t tell if my tv was too dark, but the eyes looked black.

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I didn't see the baby having black eyes. That baby was born a normal, healthy baby from what I remember.

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I appreciate the reply. You’re right though, I guess sometimes you don’t need to understand everything. I still enjoyed it, even though I confused myself.

So the witch mom (Mary), failed then? Is that because the baby was normal?

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I think she failed because Cathy lived or didn't fall under her spell. Not sure which but it had to do with Cathy. Plus the witch's son was killed. He helped her with a lot and she no longer had him.

I don't think this particular baby had anything to do with the witch. I think this baby was just a coincidence. Mary had her sights on Cathy if I remember correctly.

Keep in mind that all this is my interpretation of things. I know a lot of people didn't completely get what was going on with this movie. I can only pass on what was my understanding of it 🙂

Edited to include: Had things gone differently with Cathy and the witch succeeded in whatever she was trying to do, it's possible she would have wanted to sacrifice the baby in the future. She had sacrificed children many times. We'll never know. . . . . .

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