What happens to Molly....Spoilers

I agree, too. Based purely on what I saw from the movie, her father was into horses so in her mind she heard her fathers voice with the horses hooves so she experienced him as the devil.

I loved Twin Peaks and "Bob" scared the crap out of me! Lol

As soon as I saw that screwdriver I thought...Lynch.

Two cheers for reductionism!!

A few thoughts:

The door rattling represents the girls having essentially locked their father out of their rooms and him trying to get in (beating the door).

Molly's fate essentially I thought was supposed to be the descent into her own insanity and while I'm no expert in symbolism, what I thought had happened was that after frustration and despair at her own weakness to commit suicide, she takes the last of her drugs (I assume), takes her clothes off and goes into the darkness towards the 'arms of the demon'. This was (in my opinion) her submission (she'd given up on trying to fight it, or trying to survive it). Her final fate? As the last dates of her camcorder suggest it was October, she's out there in the bare scuddy at night with class A drugs in her system...she most likely either died out there of an overdose or of exposure to the elements.

The scenes that indicate she killed the young girl I don't think were meant to suggest that she did it out of spite to teach Tim a lesson (or to punish the mother). I noted the girl was buried...I think it was meant to point towards Molly burying her lost innocence. Most of her stalking seemed to be spent on watching the young girl in particular (not so much the mother of the children). Perhaps she saw 'herself' in the child.

The biting confused a few people I know who've already seen the movie. Most likely an element of Molly's past as her father tried to make her perform various services resulting in biting to deter the abuse.

Hannah's fate is most likely going to go a similar way to Molly's (hopefully not completely though, as she does have a young son). Hannah was actually the one who killed their father (not Molly, as at some point, Molly says something like 'you were right to kill him'). While it wasn't specific in the film, in one of the featurettes on the DVD it goes on to explain that their father was actually murdered with a screwdriver and was found at the bottom of the basement stairs. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? (Does Tim ring a bell?)

The Pastor was an unusual one...as some people have already pointed out here, he represents 'father' in a sense and therefore, that could be all it took for Molly to kill him (especially after he falls victim to her charms). At one point I got the strangest feeling that her behavior in the seduction scene with the pastor was her attempt to get him to admit to past 'liberties' he had taken with her (something in the way she asks about him missing sex was so insistant about it). Although the DVD or the featurettes stipulate nothing of the kind happened with the pastor and Molly, I did notice the pastor (in an interview on the featurette) talks about how it was no secret about the abuse that had been going on (and in this brief scene I saw no indication of regret that he himself didn't stop it). It did occur to me perhaps the pastor had been involved (perhaps in exchange for his complicity in keeping it all quiet). I'm probably (most likely) reading too much into it, but it was interesting I thought (although very cliche, as it's always 'men of God' who stereotypically become child abusers.

I wasn't a huge fan of the film, but it did make me think about a few things, and those are usually the best types of films (for me, at least).








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