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Explain the ending

posted 9 years ago by redban02
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The whole point of the villain "haunting" the house is that it belonged to him, that the father of the family wrongfully took it from him. He also has clear ties to the place, with his kids dying in the pool. This detail was the fundamental characteristic of his character.

Now at the end, however, he suddenly goes to the house next door. Why? He has no connections to this house at all. It never belonged to him. His kids didn't die here. For what reason should he haunt this place?

[–] cathinahaynes 9 years ago

Less about where, more about who. He was never able to replace his own family with the residents of his own home, so he moved on to his next *prey*, another happy family with a boy and a girl. There's also the aspect that someone benefited from his pain and loss, that with everything he lost in his own home, here was was another couple preying on his pain by taking the house next door at a steep bargain.