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Great atmosphere and build-up, but then came the 'wth' moments....


wth- what the hell. After the twists started coming in the film, it was too easy to get lost and confused.
Like who was stalking them from the outside the whole time? Who's eyes were outside the tool shed?

Too much to explain in a short period of time once the action started heating up.

Why was a manifestation of the girl sitting on the floor eating mac & cheese? what was cooking on the oven? and WHY?

I can usually wrap my mind around the "it was all a hallucination/dream" type movies, but this one had too many, too quickly.

Shed some light yes?

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The combination of his drinking, his fever, and his medication made him hallucinate. That's it.

It's a too-simple, somewhat stupid ending that feels like a cheat, but that's the explanation.

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lcri-1, you summed it up perfectly =^)

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So did the father and the kids get sick from the sheriff or from the cold?

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I think they got sick from the Sheriff and the cold just made it worse. As for the father, the addition of drinking, medication, and stress over his wife's death turned the whole thing into a halluncitory tragedy for him.

Welcome to my Nightmare- Freddy Krueger

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then why the ending, as if someone opened a bit of a curtain like someone was in there watching them leave? and what did the Sheriff mean by "he'll get what's coming to him"

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Finally someone mentions that point! When I saw that I immediately thought "What a lame 70s trick... wrapping the film up logically but then having the monster/killer come back to life for a cheap shock." But the more I think about it, too many things were not really addressed by the fever-medication-hallucination explanation. The more I think about it, the purpose of that ending moment was to tell us that, sure he was hallucinating, but at the same time there really was some supernatural presence there. I think that makes the ending a little more creative than just saying he hallucinated everything. Overall not a bad film, very well done, except that I did feel a little cheated at the end.

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