Can someone enlighten me...(Spoilers)
To what the heck anything in this film meant? I just watched it, but I'm not sure what exactly I just watched. Thanks! :)
shareI'm confused as to what you mean by you don't know what it meant. The film wasn't really a metaphor for anything. It was a demonic possession story, done in a somewhat different way than usual. We were meant to assume that the demon possessed Molly's father back when they were kids, causing him to be abusive, possibly sexually so.
Molly moves back into the house years later and encounters this demon again, and it starts telling her things that she doesn't really know about (i.e. her sister killing their father, or her husband's affair). Then it takes complete control of her, making her kill her husband, the neighbor's daughter. After that we see her walk into the demon's arms, and then we're not sure what happens to her.
The Titanic sinks, Bruce Willis is a ghost, and Henry is the killer.
There wasn't a demon. It was all in Molly's head. This was her defense mechinism for the sexual abuse her father had done to her. Coming back into the house triggered it all when she was a little girl and when she started to abuse drugs again she started to go full tilt.
There wasn't anything demonic at all.
I thought this was handled a little better in American Horror.
....Maybe you missed the part when Molly walked into the arms of a giant horse headed monster.
And if you want to argue that THAT was also in her head, maybe you missed the part where her sister began interacting with whatever that thing was at the very end of the movie.
The Titanic sinks, Bruce Willis is a ghost, and Henry is the killer.
Once again it was all in Molly's head. When she walked into the arms of the creature she was fully gone. To her it was real but to the world around her it was not. Why do you think that Tim had never seen anything including what was on video? Tim wasn't cheating on her either. She was believing what she wanted to believe. It made it easier for her to kill Tim. It was all in her head. As for Hannah, she had gone through the exact same thing as Molly with her father and then you tack on what happens with Molly. She wasn't the most stable woman either(also a drug user). I personally think that the ending was added later to give you the what if moment.
shareI think we'll have to agree to disagree, because the movie was left up to interpretation. In my opinion it was demonic.
The Titanic sinks, Bruce Willis is a ghost, and Henry is the killer.
Yeah I agree with you. It's left up to us. I think it was all in her mind.
I would have to agree. Far, far too coincidental that Molly and her sister both do the same thing, in the same room, at the same door regardless of what happened to them. That being said I thought the movie was pretty lifeless.
For those lobbying for insanity women are seldomly violent even with mental disorders. I dont really care because the movie was so poor I didnt get invested in it one way or the other, but I doubt they intended to leave the audience thinking it was a mental disease.
Finally, if that doesnt convince you the director actually says it was a demon singing to Molly in an interview, but in fairness in the same interview suggests it could be just her past.
I love thinking movies, but there's a difference between a movie that makes you and one that leaves enough out to make it impossible to figure out. Just watched this today and this is the type of movie I won't think about after I post this reply.
Tim was able to smell the demon, though. He might have been smelling the dead deer, although the smell wouldn't have gone away and come back like that. Also -- the demon didn't really look like a horse. More like a big raccoon. Not sure what was going on there.
shareI totally got the same explanation as you did. Makes sense.
"I've seen enough horror movies to know any weirdo wearing a mask is never friendly."
If Tim wasn't cheating on her, how is it that when he came home and picked up the camcorder on the bed, he watched the scene she recorded of him and that woman?
shareIf I remember correctly the guy in the video wasn't Tim.
shareIt was def Tim. He apologizes for his actions right before she stabs him in the back of the dome.
shareIt was definitely Tim but why he's apologizing is also left open to interpretation. He could be sorry he wasn't there for her when she needed him, too.
I love the ambiguity of this film. So much to discuss!
Some interesting interpretations here!
Mine was simply that the so-called demon was the ghost of her father, abusing her for the 2nd time. She turned to drugs and her insanity was a mixture of that & what was happening with the ghost of her father.
Myabe that's a little too simplistic but that's the interpretation I got. I didn't really pick up on the possibility that the demon also possessed her father & made him abuse her.
I was also thinking that way, but knew I was wrong near the ending.
Yes, it really was a demon that possessed her father, same demon that possessed her. Read cast of this movie.
Todd Ryan Jones ... The Demon
Andrew Vona ... Demon (voice)
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Well there was definately someone we saw playing the part of a demon in this movie, but that still doesn't answer the question of whether what we were seeing was real or a figment of Molly's imagination.
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