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It was either that ending or... (spoilers)

posted 7 years ago by gml-43682
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...or the groceries friend was their son (even though I couldn't guess exactly how they would explain it).

To me those were the only two possible endings, but the fact that Brahms was calling her on the phone with a child voice kept me doubting.

Anyone else though of a different ending?

Also, I would have preferred that the parents suicide letter said something like "the girl is yours, you got your doll", to give it some sense of irony as to who was whose doll during the movie.

[–] NxNWRocks 7 years ago

I thought that about the delivery guy when she said "he'd be your age now" but thankfully they didn't go there because that would be extremely cliched. Not to mention inexplicable (why do they have the doll when he's alive and well?)

They couldn't mention the doll in the letter because that would ruin the twist. That was only about half way into the movie.

I'm almost wishing they went with malevolent spirit because the actual ending just seemed really bad.

"Worthington, we're being attacked by giant bats!"

[–] Stovepipe99 7 years ago

.or the groceries friend was their son (even though I couldn't guess exactly how they would explain it).

I also thought it was possible that Malcolm would turn out to be Brahms.

The only way I could explain it would be if the family faked the death in the fire and sent Brahms away to friends or relatives somewhere far away, maybe going as far as not to be in contact with him. They keep the doll as a memory of their son. Then, years later, Brahms wants to return to his parents (maybe angry at them for sending him away), and so he assumes a different identity and moves to the town. Enough time has passed that the parents don't recognize him as their son.

This was only mildly in my head, though, because as soon as the mother kept insisting that Greta speak louder, play the music louder, etc, I figured out that the real guy was hiding in the walls/basement.

The only other thing that occurred to me was that Brahms was alive and that the doll/house was actually haunted by the spirit of the murdered little girl. Though why she'd just be hanging around . . . I do not know.