Confuse much? - Barricade (2012) Discussion

uh dad had a terrible fever and treated it with clonzepam & liquor & was hallucinating, period that's it

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It was both. He was hallucinating and the wife's spirit was in the house.

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What made you think about the wife's spirit? Was it because of the way the curtain was pulled back from the window when everyone was leaving or was it something else that I might have missed? It is an interesting theory but I can't recall anything toward it other than the very end, but she didn't die there so idk

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[–] lockon_stratos 12 years ago

It's something different for once. Instead of everything being in the person's head, it's also a spirit in this movie. The wife loves that cabin so she returns there.

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[–] Thrill_KillZ 12 years ago

I asked the director what he intended on his message board, but I won't hold my breath for a response. Some people are cool & don't mind & some don't even log on here.

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[–] astat-2 12 years ago

Well? Did he reply?

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[–] Thrill_KillZ 12 years ago

Nope, his message board was blank till I posted there. Sometimes you do actually get a quick response to clarity what their intention was when filming but I guess he doesn't use or access the site much

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[–] unknown_soul278 11 years ago

Interesting, and it could be both. There was definitely something going on with the father, and the kids even asked him why he was acting so strangely. And his drug combination with the fever was definitely a recipe for major hallucinations. As far as the mother's spirit, it depends on what you believe as an individual. Some believe a spirit haunts the place they died, some believe it haunts a person, and some that it just stays near what it loved in life. Either of the latter two would fit this situation. Or there could have been an entirely different, evil presence in the house. That one I don't go with; if that were the case, others should have had some experiences with it, including the mother as a child.

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[–] the-darkhorse-7 10 years ago

pill was a giveaway of story line. dad was overdosed.

the ghoul that live in the house have nothing to do with the plot.

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[–] jamesabutler-1 9 years ago

Subject verb agreement?

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[–] denise1234 10 years ago

** spoilers **

I didn't get it.

When did he start hallucinating? After he tied the guy up & put him in the basement?

Because at the end of the film, when he is remembering back about getting to the cabin, etc., as he remembers, he is acting lucidly.

I thought this was going to be like a 'Dream House' or 'The Others'

(more spoilers ahead, about those two movies)

-- that the kids were dead all along and he hallucinated that they were still alive -- that perhaps he had killed his wife & kids OR they had died *somehow* and that maybe he was feeling guilty about that (maybe because he had been a disconnected spouse/parent, just wrapped up in his work) and he was really at the cabin alone and had just started decompensating -- even to the point of projecting his guilt onto the old man who visited him, blaming HIM for making his kids ill/killing them.

So....I thought that even when he was walking out to the ambulance at the end, that he still thought the kids were with him, but then it would cut away somehow to seeing him actually walking alone...or the ambulance folks talking about how crazy he was from grief...or whatever.

I realize that if that *had* been the plot twist, that people would have complained about it being a rip-off of films like I mentioned above, but at least it would have made more sense to me.

And it also would have fit with how oddly the kids acted sometimes, the 'death' face of the little girl when she was eating Mac'N'Cheese on the kitchen floor, his always seeming to lose his kids and then their miraculously showing up again, etc.

Also, the lingering cabin 'spirit' or whatever at the end?...that just seemed random.

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[–] IvyTempleton 9 years ago

I wish someone had responded to this. I agree. It annoys me that everyone's answer is he was hallucinating. But maybe he just was. :((

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[–] megafauna005 9 years ago

Everyone was confused because they never explained it! He had a fever?? They never said in the movie he had a fever. They never showed him checking his temp.

The wife dies by simply falling in her own bedroom?? LOL..how often does that happen?

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[–] Oddark123 8 years ago

That's a pretty lazy simplification on your part.

She tripped on broken glass and hit her head on the counter. That's not all that insane of a death given there are clumsy people out there.

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[–] pennilayne 9 years ago

At the end, the Sheriff (who the dad tied up) said "When I saw him he was really sick with a fever, he'll get what's coming to him"

I don't understand what "he'll get what's coming to him" means exactly----but it was the dad who was sick, and gave it to his kids. He was sick the whole time and didn't know it. The Sheriff really was getting over whatever sickness was going around, but the dad didn't know.

He was hallucinating at the same time while taking care of the kids. Because of the meds/fever/drinking. The thing that bothers me with that---is I would buy the crazy hallucinating with that sort of combo if the mediation was NOT "Clonazepam." Makes sense he would be on it, but I take that for my severe anxiety disorder---and unless he was taking like 6 at a time of a very strong dose, with the alcohol, then yeah maybe he might hallucinate. But clonazepam isn't a drug that does that. It takes away anxiety. It's not nearly as strong as other drugs. If he was taking Seroquel or some kind of depression medication, bipolar medication or something like that--- then yeah, mixed with a really bad fever and alcohol, I could believe the hallucination.

The spirit of his wife was there in the house. When he said "I'm sorry I couldn't save you" you hear a whisper from a woman "But you did save them" and it went on to show exactly how everything really went down. So at the end with the curtain, and it looking like someone was watching them leave---it was his wife's spirit. They were seeing her there the whole time, but she looked so scary because he was hallucinating, and very upset when he thinks about her and the night she died. It was her eyes, through the shed, and her walking through the trees.

When he was hallucinating you also hear a man's voice saying "Please don't leave me here" during all his blurry madness. That was the sheriff calling from the attic begging to let him out.

It could have been a way better film had they changed the medication----and if the Sheriff didn't say "He will get whats coming to him" ---the Sheriff should have been a bit more understanding since he realized how sick he was at the gas station (they don't show that, to make it more of a twist) that he was very sick, and freaking out, and wasn't a bad person at all. So that line makes no sense, but other than that the rest makes sense. (If you believe clonazepam is a drug that will make you hallucinate like crazy with alcohol and a fever) Which I swear----it didn't show the dosage but it should have, it would have to be like a TON of it. Or he wouldn't be hallucinating, he would be dead. Like sleeping pills. Should have been a different medication. Also the acting wasn't great.

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[–] fluffchop 9 years ago

I think the reasons for his hallucinations were due to running a very high fever. However, the prescription of Clonazepam must indicate he has some condition it is being used to treat. We never find out what that might be.

From reading it can be used for psychosis, mania, epilepsy, so maybe that drug wasn't a bad choice for the movie. It's just not explained, we only see what he is experiencing for the most part.

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[–] Oddark123 8 years ago

I thought it was going to go that way too.

However if any "people" would have said that and used that word, I'd call them out on not knowing much about what they are talking about. If anyone follows any genre well enough, they should have educated the term "rip-off" out of their psyche ages ago.

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