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I don't get the ending

posted 13 years ago by jb183
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I'm usually good at figuring out what's going in movies, but this one I'm a little confused about. I get the fact that it was supposed to be the end of the world but the symbols in blood, the darkness at the end of the movie; are the rock-a-billies aliens or the devil??? I wish there was a little more back story on them besides the missing person posters. And correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Vernon mentioned a pact they made with the old man that lived near the cabin. And what was supposed to be inside the girl? I thought this was a fairly good movie, until I got to the ending. Could anyone help fill in the blanks... thanks!

[–] aftertheglitterfades1970 13 years ago

I watched this movie last night, and I was wondering the same thing. At first, I though it was a demon, but that final scene pushed me to think...Aliens? There were all these lights in the sky, and I didn't know if that was just the world ending, or if it was a huge mother ship of some kind. All of those missing people could have been picked up by an alien craft and kept there until the moment that they were ready.

The ending aside, I really liked this movie. I'm so into horror/slasher/zombie movies, and this catered to my tastes pretty well.

[–] jb183 13 years ago

Ok so were pretty much on the same page! lol It definitely had all the qualities of a good horror movie. I would like to maybe see a prequel or something; get some of the back story on the rock-a-billies & the old man.

[–] dawatcher 13 years ago

Wasn't the 'void' part of the lovecraftian lore? I suppose it was a mix of both horror and scifi in the tradition of Cthulhu Mythos.

[–] nrkist2424 13 years ago

Yeah, it was definitely supposed to be lovecraftian. The mothership thing doesn't fit in with all the seemingly satanic elements: symbols in blood, possession, the pact with the old man, the rock-a-billies claiming to be born outside of time in the darkness of the void (definitely a nod to lovecraft)...

It all amounted to a kind of vague horror film. The mothership really kills it though and makes it all a confusing mess. I'm guessing they didn't feel like the ending had enough of a punch and wanted a big set piece for the finale.

Why was the possessed sister special?
Why did every other dead person except the sister explode?
Who were the rock-a-billies and why were they unaged and apparently possessed by these beings?
How did the hermit failing to keep his pact cause ANY of what happened?

Essentially, wierd stuff happens 'just because'.

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[–] Umakemyheadswim 13 years ago

Good luck with that. Its just bad writing.

[–] santannadiablo 12 years ago

The Lovecraft thing about ancient gods comes into place here, it also wasn't a mothership at the end but the sky getting dark, meaning the "dark gods" or whatever they were, were coming and were starting to kill all of humanity, thus the people on the street dropping off.

I can understand the confusion if you haven't read Lovecraft or the 70's hoax, "The Necronomicon" which unless I'm mistaken Lovecraft invented the term.

Anyway the whole "Dark Gods" thing comes into ploy in several movies and the "Rockabillies" weren't really angels, demons or aliens yet they were a combination of all of those.

[–] jorgito2001 12 years ago

Like another poster, I dug the gore and horror bits, but the movie's STORY left a lot to be desired. I was thinking posession the whole time til close to the end, where I started leaning towards ALIENS, but a lot was left unexplained...and vagueness works for SOME movies (draw your own conclusion), but NOT this one!

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[–] Indifferent_Observer 12 years ago

This movie works just fine the way it is.

Its explained at the end by the Rockabilies, what do you want? Its about the Void. "Where do you think all those stories come from?(Heaven and Hell) Where time doesn't exist, the void, our kind". There's your explanation. Its definitely Lovecraftian and odd, but its supposed to be. Whatever it is sets forth the end of the world.

I liked it

[–] sepsism 9 years ago

dirtydingusmagee123 gets it.

I liked that was it left fairly ambiguous, inspires thought and discussion.

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[–] lapeste71 12 years ago

Agree. I think is just poor writing. If you need to be an expert in several branches of modern mythology in order to understand a horror-gore film, the problem is the film. After all, we are not discussing a doctoral dissertation. As for the story, I was more interested in Cody's back story than the rockabillies' unoriginal, unengaged and ineffectively sadistic psychotic babble. As or the ending, it was the end of humanity, one citizen of the Great State of CA at a time... Or wasn't it?

[–] Tyler-A-Arse 12 years ago

By "poor writing", if you mean they left it open for interpretation on purpose, then I agree.

I really doubt the writers unintentionally left out the meaning. It seems alot of movies like to leave it up for you to figure it out just to stir debate about the movie and make it seem more interesting when all they're doing is killing their own movie.

I really didn't care for the movie too much, but I did find Vernon entertaining at times.

[–] laeyisoracle 12 years ago

I guess, one of the questions I ask is, "Why were they rockabillies?". Are the rockabillies otherworldly beings, or are they possessing the bodies of the youth that disappeared in the 50s. Remember, during the 50s, various teenagers started to missing. Had they been the "otherworlders" back then, basically strangers that appeared out of nowhere, when they disappeared, no body would care enough to take the time out and say they are missing. All the missing posters give the impression they(the rockabillies) WERE real human teens back in the 50s(and had families that filed them missing), who somehow, were possessed by the "otherworld" things and left. Make sense?

[–] guarnot 11 years ago

Make sense?

Actually, yes.

[–] mkmdd2 8 years ago

Not necessarily Lovecraftian, just incorporeal bored psychopathic aliens that got their kicks play acting in the bodies of primitive humans with sadistic violence, hence "the violent kind". The scouts took over and had fun early on in the 50s as rockabillies. Now the rest were descending and taking over people.