the Mom?


OK, so why would she want her husband and kids to go there in the first place? That so doesn't make sense to me and I don't really think the dad was a bad guy. I mean they showed that the house had some kind of spirit at the end of the movie. They where also all sick. Just weird.

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Unsure how to answer your questions, except maybe the first. People often like to go back to places that bring them good memories, which the mom as good-natured as she seemed obviously had at the cottage. That alone makes me think that the place wasn't really haunted, though you are right that the confusing shot at the end suggesting there was a ghost is a bit out of place. This movie kind of reminded me of another Netflix film called 'Beneath' - both decent and atmospheric enough, but I found that the writers didn't really know what they wanted the evil force to be, so they just yanked you around for the entire runtime until you're left absolutely confused about what you just watched. Basically, I feel that the film had a major identity crisis and didn't know what it wanted to be.

Shame, too, just because I had mistakenly assumed that it would be a zombie flick which have been done to death but they can be effective when done right. Then, when it was clear that the dad was going through stuff, I was for sure that he was insane and once you find out how the mom died, I was thinking it was all some scheme of his to kill his kids (and maybe himself) because the son was the one who wanted the glass of water. But they didn't even want to go that route. At least they played with my expections, albeit not well. 

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The spirit was their mother, trying to remain close to her family. She only looked scary because he was hallucinating, and have a scary hallucination because of his mindset.

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