Was it just me...


...or did this movie have so many directions it could have gone in and failed miserably in all of it's choices? This movie actually received some decent hype and I'm assuming it was all from people who hadn't seen it. The acting is pitiful and there are some parts where they make the kids super weird and then they are normal, but the reality is, we're supposed to buy the ending and assume that it was simply....what? Sickness, psychosis, dream, medicinal side effect. All the possible explanations suck. If one goes back and thinks about each and every scene, the entire movie makes absolutely no sense. None whatsoever. Why not make the entire thing a dream.

Slight : Why the heck did they say "one year later" and never really have any answer as to why they never went away? Are we to believe that every one of those flashbacks took place on the same day? I guess so, because the mom was wearing the same clothes, but still. Far fetched. I know because Eric McCormack was in it, there will be those fans who loved it no matter what, but be honest. If given your own choice of how each scene progressed into the next, would anyone have had that conclusion?

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I know! And they never even explained why Eric acted like that! WHY did he attack the old policeman like that and keep him in his attack? Was he arrested in the end? They never said!

The aura was creepy at times but the movie was stupid!


Jesus NEVER existed! He is Judeo Christian MYTH!

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Actually psychologically speaking, with his mind-set and depression about his wife's death, his fear of not being a good father, and trying to protect them because they were sick----each scene that was a creepy hallucination makes total sense. Especially the one where he is outside, and sees the cross with the bunny buried, then he goes back inside, and is reversed back inside with the door locked again and he said "that could never happen." Or when the Sheriff first knocks on the door to check on them and then is blown out and taken in the snow" what really happened was him attacking the sheriff in rage and taking him up to the attack, so it was symbolic. Not all the hallucinations were as clever, but they all definitely made sense. Especially at the end when it shows how everything really went down---the bathtub, the kids being sick, what he really did to take care of them while he was sick and delusional. You should watch it again, or you might just not understand psychology/hallucinations and it will never make sense to you.

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I think you're giving this movie way too much credit. Please don't go there with the "you might just not understand psychology," because if you thought this movie was clever or in anyway intelligently done...well, I'll leave it at that. This is hardly a movie one needs to see in its entirety, let alone twice to understand. You're made aware quite early on that this is in his head and every clue is superfluous. Even those who didn't get the "ambiguous" ending, understood early on this wasn't a haunted house tale. I appreciate that you liked it and from your other posting on this movie, you obviously feel some obligation to show it's intellectual merits, but trust me, even young, inexperienced horror fans understood this one clearly. It's just a poor movie.

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I never said it was a good film. It's just weird to me how a lot of people are being haters mostly because not a lot of people understand it, and it's a simple plot. It was a "year later" probably because thats when he felt ready to be able to go back to a cabin that meant a lot to his wife---and she said she wanted it to be for Christmas. It was clearly summer at the beginning of the film and in the flashbacks. Everyone is making it out to be more complicated than it really is. I said "a couple" things were clever. The whole thing wasn't some crazy mess just because some people don't get it.

Proving that the film, while not being a great one actually does make sense and has a couple clever psychological hallucinations isn't me giving it tons of praise. It's just annoying when people are such haters because they don't get it. And it's even spelled out for everyone in more than just the script. I even said in my "whole description" that I would have bought it more had the meds been something different. I definitely have my own complaints, and the lead actor was pretty bad. The kids were better. It's a simple plot, parts of it were executed cleverly and most of it was boring, and yes far fetched because he would never hallucinate like that with that kind of medication. However I do appreciate psychological thrillers/horror films so I give it credit for not just being a haunted house. Because it wasn't. There was one spirit and that was the mom. The ending can be up for interpretation though as far as thinking whoever pulled back the curtain was the spirit of the mom or not. That makes more sense than it just being a randomly haunted house which would also be stupid and negate what the actual film is supposed to be about.

And yes all his flashbacks were probably of the day she died---which also makes sense. When you ask howcome it never explained why they never went away I don't know what you mean by mean.

I do think the film could have taken many different directions----as it was going, I thought of a lot of different things it could have been, but it all would have been cliche. I don't find movies that end up being a dream or hallucination a cop out---but it's psychologically interesting. Like Vanilla Sky, great film yet everyone thinks the ending is a cop out. I for one got goosebumps, because how effing creepy is it that he didnt know he was dead and they hooked him up to something he can dream in for the rest of his life but not have any control over. It was an interesting film.

However, just because I am saying it makes sense doesn't mean i don't agree with you in that it's not a great film. But I've seen way worse horror movies.

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The first paragraph made me not want to reply on the grounds the opinions within I reject, and the lack of manners aren't nice.

But the second one, really guy? You were too busy ragging on the movie to realize the simple thing that he was remembering back to the day his wife died? That's hardly far fetched.

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