You're right on target. I thought the movie was excellent and very distrubing. The plot is great, you just have to notice the clues: they all lead to a horrifying conclusion about what happened. I kept thinking about this movie all day. It gets under the skin, which is something that doesn't happen often.
Those who don't like the movie either like slasher flicks or didn't figure out the plot (which isn't that hard to do if you pay attention and the added features of the DVD help with this too).
Molly was haunted by a demon, which had possessed her father and caused him to kill people and eventually molest Molly. Molly's sister killed the dad with a screwdriver to the back of the head and Molly went crazy and started doing drugs.
When the movie picks up, Molly is clean and just married. She moves back to the old family home (which has been the site of satanic worship, see DVD extras). The demon takes the form of her father and only Molly can see it. There's one part of the movie where she's talking to it and she says, "I know what you are.", so she realizes that the demon isn't really her dad, but only appears to be him.
The demon eventually possesses Molly, like it did her dad. We know for sure that dad was possessed by the demon by what Molly said and because the demon kind of has a horse-shaped face, and Molly takes an old photo album and replaces the face of her father with the face of a horse (signifying the dad was possessed).
Molly goes from being haunted by the demon to finally being possessed by it. She kills hubby and pastor and hubby's mistress's daughter before disappearing into the arms of the demon. We know that Molly isn't "just" crazy because we see the demon near the end. This thing has a history of possessing people and the extras of the DVD show this.
After Molly disappears, the sister goes back to the home, which is now empty. She finds the photo album with the horse-headed dad on the floor. There are creaking sounds in the closet, and she opens it the same way Molly did at the film's beginning. She then hears whispers and responds in the same way Molly did (by stretching out her arm). This signifies the demon has chosen to haunt and possess her, and the whole cycle is beginning over again. I would imagine the demon will kill the sister's son, as Molly tells her earlier that the "thing" would try to kill her son if Molly went to stay with her sister after she first attacked Tim.
This is the sort of movie that just is creepy as all hell. I loved it and will probably want to see it again soon.
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EmilyyAndrews
12 years ago
Depending how you take the film as well, if she had actually gone insane she may have killed the daughter to symbolize her childhood
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anarchangel-2
12 years ago
What about people who don't like slasher flicks, understand the oversimplistic plot, and still recognize that this movie is a piece of crap?
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tlbradley42
12 years ago
Hi, Town. I agree also with your interpretation and appreciate you sharing what was on the dvd extras. I was wondering what the significance was of the area under the storage building (that looked like a barn). I think every time Molly was humming she was possessed and she went under floor in the barn close to the beginning when she first became possessed.The imagery was not really satanic looking to me, it kind of looked celtic (although I have no idea). So the whole time I had it in my head that it was a celtic demon and that the symbols were very old.
Do you know from the extras what they represented? Were they satanic symbols?
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