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Unanswered Questions

posted 11 years ago by jennyce-h
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I personally noticed some big unanswered questions for this movie.

For starters, Robbie calls Jordan to try to get her to come to the falls with him, he claims he knows that she is not crazy and can prove this to her. How? What is at the falls? We don't, nor will find out. Maybe this was just him attempting to get her to fall for him all along?

Also, is Robbie's dad (the Sheriff) and Dr. Parrish in on the whole thing? Kevin tells Jordan that befriending the police in a small town is good against enemies. Dr. Parrish looks around guilty-like at Kevin and Anne when Jordan asks if she can speak to the surviving girls who were once haunted by the twins.

Also, curious about the continuous references and emphasis they put on Robbie and his father getting away with murder.

Just a few questions I had. Maybe these were obvious and didn't need answered. However I found this to be an overall enjoyable movie!

[–] jabney415 11 years ago

1. Best guess- Robbie has found evidence that the three previous "suicides" were murders- discarded restraints, tarps, etc., probably behind the waterfall where only he goes. Sloppy, but then, so is leaving a severed hand behind after you kill someone.
2. I think Parrish is just iffy about the three "folie a deux" suicides. That diagnosis is a hell of a stretch, and a decent shrink should have a pretty good feel for when someone is genuinely suicidal. He gave me the impression of knowing what he was saying was crap, but of having nothing better to offer, and feeling guilty about that.
3. Best guess- Red herrings, which worked on me as well. I thought the sheriff was the killer until about 17 minutes from the end.

Lots of overthought for what was, in the end, just a pretty good low-budget ghost movie, but hey....

[–] heyteegs 9 years ago

They had to leave the severed hand for Jordan to find the ring twenty years later. I still don't get the whole Anne is not her mother's sister though. And why the Dahl sisters were made to be twins. Is there some connection between twins killing twins? And that doctor was just too malevolent of a character to not have been involved somehow. Not a very good script if you ask me; I also knew Kevin was involved from the scene in the beginning when he was shirtless in bed. It feels like EVERYONE in the movie was involved but the writer got tired of trying to figure out how.

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[–] cinemajunky 11 years ago

Robbie has all the red flags of a serial rapist and it doesn't help that his cop dad looks the other way. I figured he was trying to win her over to him by telling her he didn't think she was crazy. Getting her to the falls is getting her to a secluded spot where he could then "no means yes" her. He doesn't really factor into the whole murders thing because he's a red herring.

His dad and the therapists are red herrings as well. The cop seems to be a decent guy with a *beep* son and he's just making the best of a bad situation, especially since he doesn't appear to have all that much going on upstairs. As for Dr. Parrish, he's a blowhard. He puts too much stock into his own abilities as a psychologist and it's embarrassing to have missed something so obvious as suicidal tendencies in those suffering from delusions where they see a dead girl.

For Kevin, a die-hard serial killer who enjoys the chase, the cop would be the enemy.

What I didn't understand was the whole switch from good parents to serial killers. I mean, yeah, Kevin definitely gave off a creeper vibe, but it doesn't make sense that Anne would kill her sister along with all these other girls. There's no motive and it doesn't really explain how she's a sociopath. There's usually a cliche explanation word vomited over a flashback right before the bad guys are thwarted in these cheesy horror stories, right?

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[–] targa9 10 years ago

Anne didn't kill her sister. Anne was not the aunt, as seen when the girl opened the drawer and saw a pic of her mom and her twin sister, and there was another pic of Anne, and she looked nothing like her mom. This is why "Anne" never saw her niece; because she was just another woman. The uncle could have been the real uncle, I don't know. But this couple was basically strangers to the girl, who killed their parents, and stole their identity or something. It's not made very clear, though.

[–] hitchcock_blonde 10 years ago

But didn't Jordan say that looking at Anne was just like looking at her mom??

Can you hear me?....They did this

[–] targa9 10 years ago

I thought Anne said she didn't visit because of the similarity between the sisters, but I believe you're right--Jordan said the resemblance was acute.
Bit of a plot hole, perhaps, since we know for sure that the picture of the twins Jordan found in Anne's drawer was of her mom and her sister, and Anne did not look anything like her. To reinforce that point, Jordan pulled up a contemporary photo of Anne and held it right next to the pair, and Anne was obviously a different woman.

[–] writerchick89 10 years ago

I really thought from what I heard in the movie that she WAS the aunt. And I thought the pictures Jordan found were of the twins that were killed. I figured it was because the guy killed them & kept the pictures of them, & until Anne came in, I was thinking, Wait, he kept pictures of them? Wouldn't she have found them? Which now is a Duh! moment. But I may be wrong because I didn't see the pictures that closely. I'm going to try and watch it again on Netflix streaming on my laptop, so I'll get a better look then.

But I agree that some of those other things were probably red herrings.

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[–] IvyTempleton 8 years ago

I think this theory may be right.

[–] xenatikkanen-1 10 years ago

I think it was pretty obvious (just my opinion) that Anne and Kevin were guilty in some way at the very beginning. I was pretty sure that Anne had killed her twin but it was really kind of goofy that the girls killed were twins too. That part was just stupid. Anyway, Kevin wanted the niece to sleep with them in their bed (quickly had to cover and say in a sleeping bag); Anne seemed jealous even then. Anne, on the other hand showed many scenes where you could tell she had some serious problems. She immediately thinks her niece is stealing and on drugs; she LOCKS HER UP. WTH? You know she would have been taken away by social services/protective services if anyone found out the two of them locked her in a bathroom, no less, so they could go on "date night." "I won't neglect my wife" blah blah blah crap from him. They were just wacko from the start!

I think it was a total waste of space to have the whole Robbie/sheriff dad storyline. No connection to anything. Plus, I realize that the other kids that didn't see the "ghosts" anymore were coached by Holly & Heather's convict dad, but it is just ridiculous that the whole town believes Dr. Parrish with his folie a deux diagnosis. What a dumb town.

I was wondering if the whole town was killing people for some reason and covering it up with the ghost crap. Oh well, that might have been more interesting. LOL

[–] cinemajunky 10 years ago

It's been awhile since I watched this, but, from what I remember, a lit of her actions can be reasoned with paranoid/over-protective first time parent. She didn't come across as a psychopath until the end.
Supposedly it's based on the true story of husband and wife serial killers who kidnapped a couple teenagers to rape and murder after they accidentally killed her younger sister. There's still a lot of unanswered questions with that too.

[–] Delof 11 years ago

I still wonder if the Sheriff and Dr. Parrish were in on the killings. Hopefully, Jordan and her boyfriend left the town and didn't go to the sheriff or Dr. There is no way that I would trust those two.

I enjoyed the movie also

[–] italianprincess4486 10 years ago

To me the biggest unanswered question was WHY did Anne and Kevin kill the twins in the first place? Was that explained in the movie? Also what wasn't explained is did the other girls actually see the twins and how did they see the twins if they didn't have the rings on?

[–] panson1 10 years ago

Because as stated in the movie by Kevin, is that "she grew tired of them". They are both psychopathic killers;they love the idea of killing more than anything.

[–] freakctc 10 years ago

As far as why they killed the twins, it's kind of hinted at, towards the very end, that Kevin had a wandering eye, and that made Anne jealous.
When the lights flicker he says 'Holly, enough with the lights'.
Then Anne starts scolding him, saying to 'let her go'.
And he replies 'I let them all go, except you.'
That implies that he had feelings for the girls they killed.
Also, earlier in the scene, Kevin makes a inaudible comment, and Anne replies 'Why do you always make this about me?'
And he says 'Because, Anne, it usually is.'
That a strong indication that Anne is the violently Jealous type, and you really can't kill one of a set of twins, especially if they're always together.

Now, as for if the other girls could see the twins, I do not know. It could very well have been a aborted plot that the Dr was in on it, covering up for the murders by making up this whole story about the victims seeing the ghosts. Unless that whole psycho-babble spiel he was laying out there was supposed to be legit, and maybe Kevin started it by talking about seeing Holly? It's very open-ended.
The rings were obviously a stronger way to see the girls, but if talking about them was enough, then Jordan didn't have to put the rings on Anne and Kevin at the end, them talking about the twins would have been enough. It's still a good movie, and may even warrant future repeat viewings. I hope my opinions/observations are of some help in finding the answers you seek.

[–] smakar 10 years ago

I agree about the Robbie character - I kept waiting for him to pop-up near the end, either to try to kill or save them, one way or another.

But I enjoyed this movie, and I thought the main cast was good, especially the killers (except trying to slash someone with antlers was silly). I particularly liked the last scene.