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Mark almost falling from tree
I thought all ghosts
I loved but for me small plot hole
The ending
Too bad Ben and Rey didn't live happily ever after because.....
Good twist with "Jason" being a good guy
Kids in masks
Music in throat slicing video
Charlie's accident
The cactus
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Just going to say getting close with the scientist stuff and escape but you are still off.
I have heard others seem to say its not the person at all but a entirely different entity in the bodies. In other words Ellie's consciousness would have moved on or blinked out depending on what you believe with a demon inhabiting the body. I do not think that and also that's not terrifying like little Ellie coming back aware but now totally changed and demented. Along with possessing dark clairvoyant powers and strength. Its her brain and awareness but she has gone completely sour and evil.
I honestly think they should have gone with it being too late for Connie by the time they get her out. Would have been much darker but I guess like people said would have left the parents in a horrible spot. I wish she had died but I admit I see why they wrote it differently. You can imagine though all that went through Susan's head when she made Henry confess to his brother. She knew not only was Richard dead because of him but that it was all true about him trying to kill Connie like mark said. How close it came to her actually dying. I still think if not Connie dying though they could have thrown in some tidbits to make this movie even more disturbing.
That's a good theory. Maybe she was watching on the hospital tv one of those haunting shows and it was flora and miles story. The children now adults giving the details of their story with reenactment. The way the children looked in the movie and kates fantasy could be the same as the reenactment children in the program. I think the cobain thing was included because that was a prominent memory in her life since it was around the time she was going insane. Seeing and hearing the death of cobain on tv
There is a extra scene in the book. It does not show a funeral but shows Susan at Henry's gravesite. Mark comes to visit and goes and sees Susan at his grave. The tombstone reads "without darkness there can be no light"
With the family thing I also wondered about slight plot changes and rewrites. With the title The Good Son(Henry was the only son here) I wondered if originally mark could have been a foster child who recently loss his mom who was his only family. Basically the movie would play out almost the same and honestly might have made it even better. Mark being a grief stricken boy without even a father would make him being the scape goat to blame even easier. At the end of everything they all realize what a good boy he is and their blood son was the bad one. The assumption is mark would be adopted and Susan would have the son Henry could never have been.
Hey what if his sister Connie was a bad seed as well and the parents and not discovered yet? Then again I doubt this idea and here is why. I get the impression Henry had been acting mean to her for a long time. I think if she had the evil streak she would have taken care of him the first time he disrespected her.😆😆
The character was definitely meant to be classy modern lady. Also the character was meant to be the best kind of mom if there was such a thing. She was always there to talk but she wasn't smothering and evidently let henry run around town all day except coming home for lunch. With any other kid I would say lucky but that was one kid that needed looking into more often. It was easy for him to keep his dark hobbies a secret.
Hey don't forget about the small animal skulls. Keep in mind this was the early nineties way before you could find those on eBay or online stores. We can assume he collected road kill and or they are from animals he killed. Shooting that dog in the movie was not his first rodeo. As far as the mom never seeing the stuff I agree far fetched that she never went in there but she probably thought it was harmless. I read the novelization of this. Basically he never asked her to not go in but she was letting him have a place that was his.
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