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Poll: Did anyone think the WIB's final vengeful act made her more scary

posted 10 years ago by Flabulous
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....despite it rendering the burial of her son a pointless act, which in terms of drama could be considered anti-climactic?

I've heard some people suggest it took them by surprise by breaking the convention of bow-tying the endings

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[–] Trippetta10 10 years ago

The film ended with a good twist that reminded me of the conclusion of The Ring. Some people aren't just misunderstood; they're simply evil to the core.

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[–] melissy87-928-30530 9 years ago

why was the woman is blacks son taken from her in the first place? in the paperwork it said he was adopted away from her ?

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[–] melissy87-928-30530 9 years ago

so was her sister and her husband killed in the buggy accident as well as the boy?

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[–] catbookss 9 years ago

In the book it's clear that Jennet had been haunting Alice ever since the death of Nathaniel many years before.

I haven't read the book, but it was made clear in the first version too. Remember when Arthur was listening to those wax recording rolls of Alice's?

That's right, now that you mention it, they never did say how Alice's husband died, so it probably was of old age. Judging by the state of the house, it looked like he'd died quite a while before she did.

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[–] catbookss 9 years ago

It certainly had 

I couldn't help but feel sorry for Alice, all alone in that decrepit house, as isolated as a house could be, living in one or two rooms, no friends, all of the people in the village probably hating her because of her sister, and on top of it, being haunted nightly by … *shudders* her.

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[–] catbookss 9 years ago

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[–] Curtis_C_Flush 9 years ago

The new sequel (not really recommended) said that Mr. Drablow fathered the child with Jennet. I think it implied that he had Jennet sent to the loony bin to cover it up, and took the child as his own with Alice.

[–] blairbitchproject 9 years ago

The film ended with a good twist that reminded me of the conclusion of The Ring. Some people aren't just misunderstood; they're simply evil to the core.

Exactly

[–] sesquick-seabag 9 years ago

No, on the contrary the scene actually diminishes the potency of her myth. As some of us know, the ending here is changed completely from the book, where she causes the deaths of Kipps's wife and child by startling a horse they're riding on causing it to run wild - the boy is instantly killed, and the mother dies later from her injuries . The whole point of her revenge is that she leaves the parents alive to suffer.

[–] jack_north 9 years ago

I'd like to think she was thanking Kipps for reuniting her with her son by reuniting his family in an afterlife.