Same here. I loved it up till the end. The build up was great, and starting out making us think Skip and Hildie were the crazy ones was done well and with humor. The tension during the night with the serial killer was good. But it just seemed to fall apart at the end.
I know they couldn't see him in the dark, so that way why no one was going down to try & shoot him, plus having to aim well since they only had one bullet. I was confused about when Hildie ran downstairs. Was she trying to get herself killed? I thought she must have taken the shotgun to try & shoot the guy, but then it showed that the Swedish guy still had the rifle. Then, when Wendy and Joseph climbed out, someone screamed to watch out, so I assumed that was Linda, and I thought, "Ok, he just used his last bullet & threw the gun on the ground. Why couldn't Linda see that and tell the Swedish guy and them go outside with the shotgun and shoot the guy, since they don't have to be close to him to shoot him and therefor could get him before he got to the others or to them. Then to have him do what he did accidentally and die from it was ironic, I suppose, but it was a bit odd and didn't feel like it fit.
But yeah, the ending was just sort of anticlimactic. I kept expecting something else to happen when they were going off with the woman in the car. And they never showed Linda and Nils (is that right?) again after they ran out of the house, so I wondered what happened to them. I did get the irony of the butterfly, but still just a disappointing ending. Maybe I'm just too used to there being twists in these kind of movies (not all of which I like, tbh, but some are good).
Fiction is a lie, and good fiction is the truth inside the lie.--Stephen King
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