Don't know what it is these days that writers can't seem to come up with any endings that make a lick of sense.
This movie was surprisingly good. The camera shots, the acting, good mystery, really great and creepy atmosphere...but then we get to the end and there's about 60 seconds of "Huh?" followed by credits.
Still worth watching but what a let down.
I love it when people get so upset that answers aren't handed to them. They don't even bother to investigate into the filmmakers message and what it all means. I think it's so adorable and it makes me laugh. LOVE reading when people are pissed that they do not understand the ending. :)Thanks.
shareThe ending put me right back to the beginning before i started watching it- not knowing what the hell is going to happen with the plot. That's why I watched the film in the first place.
Except, it left me not knowing what the hell is going to happen with the plot when it was all over.
If there was ever a "yeah....and?" movie, this would be one of them.
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"investigate into the filmmakers message and what it all means"
I don't want homework, I want a cohesive story.
Liked this movie until it got nearer the end and I could see it was going to turn into one of the now all too common, "oh, you wanted a story with a beginning, middle and end? Sorry, we couldn't come up with a decent conclusion so you'll just have to do that bit for yourself. Oh, and if you dare mention your dissatisfaction there are plenty of superior a'holes online to suggest you go back to Transformers" type movies.
Weak, lazy storytelling, and should have a new rating category, perhaps RA (ridiculously ambiguous), or something along those lines to forewarn those of us who aren't quite on your intellectual level.
No offence but your comment makes you come across as dwelling on your own lofty plane of smugness.
Lazy, I couldn't have said it better myself. Maybe they sat around the old table and thought of a great idea but when somebody said "how do we end it?" no one stepped up. And here we are. And to all the people that compare this to the Blair Witch Project all I can say is wow. Your opinions do not count when it comes to horror movies, or movies in general for that matter, as that was one of the worst films ever made. IQ's under 80 made that one a hit, this was better. It just didn't cut it in the last 20 minutes, no excuse for it.
shareIt isn't lazy. They ended it exactly how they wanted it. Just because you do not agree with the ending, that they're all in hell, that doesn't mean it is lazy. I swear, people get so bent out of shape when films aren't the way they desire them to be.
shareI call those "Monty Python Endings", tho this one did make sense. I just didn't like the movie.
shareI love condescending pricks:)It's so fun reading their comments!! Thank you!
shareSo if you're so damn smarter than the rest of us, then go ahead and explain the ending please, "Rebekah." Or go back to The Tree of Life board and mock all the posters there that are simply relaying how pathetic a film without a plot, let alone a conclusive ending, is.
Just sayin'...
I'm sorry. I didn't realize that you needed, "They're all in hell," spelled out for you.
sharethey were obviously going for a Shining vibe --- a possessed place which slowly drives everyone insane, and materializes in some dreamy throwback to a bygone era, to entice and comfort its victims.
personally, i never know what people are expecting with supernatural movies like this. what ending would you have preferred? a giant cave monster with a phonograph? an evil wizard? it was clear to me early on that it was just some sort of a possessed place which warps peoples' minds, and that's enough of an answer.
i thought the suspense was good and the movie was quite terrifying at times (despite some laughable gore). it thought it was well worth the watch.
Speaking of The Shining, the eeriness of the old music (sounding hollow and echoey and muted and far away) seems like it was almost certainly inspired by the music in the ballroom in The Shining.
shareOh god. If ONLY they had the writing skills to put in the cave monster with a phonograph. That would have been a phenomenal improvement!
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LOL at cave monster with a phonograph! Thanks for the smile!
sharethey were obviously going for a Shining vibe --- a possessed place which slowly drives everyone insane, and materializes in some dreamy throwback to a bygone era, to entice and comfort its victims.
Honestly, I went in blind to this film and was hooked from the intro as well as the foggy glass scene.
All I could think during the last ten minutes was "I hope they don't try to explain this." Instead, we're treated to him showing up at the theater they started at (just in sepia tone) and it turning into a "live forever in your hell" sort of vibe to it.
I was actually hoping that they'd end it with him crawling off frame. It would've been a letdown of a different kind, but it would've at least left things open.
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I recently heard an interview with Eduardo Sánchez where he said the ending to the Blair Witch Project was technically because they were running out of a budget and had ran out of time for the art department to work anything up for them. They sold the movie with its current ending but the studio wanted them to film something bigger, flashier. They tried multiple things but instead went and shot the interviews at the beginning of the film in an attempt to give an explanation.
I, for one, never put two and two together, so the ending left me feeling unsatisfied. I know that probably leaves me with my dunce cap on, but I really wish there was something similar in here.
There was something off with the opening, especially the "Enjoy your picture show line" in the first scene, but I wish it had been more hinted at rather than shoved in your face and actually shown what that meant.
Don't know what it is these days that writers can't seem to come up with any endings that make a lick of sense.
This movie was surprisingly good. The camera shots, the acting, good mystery, really great and creepy atmosphere...but then we get to the end and there's about 60 seconds of "Huh?" followed by credits.
Still worth watching but what a let down.
Yeah, I enjoyed the movie. But I also think people who complain about the ending are totally valid. I mean, what the hell was it? What actually happened? I'm still not sure if the filmmakers gave us enough of an idea to make the ending interesting. Unfortunately I sort of see it as a "random-weird-creepytime-crazy" ending...
I want it to be more, but I'm not sure it is.
Awful ending, indeed. Instead of coming up with something cleaver they rip-off another movie. 3/10
Look at the night sky, where does it end?