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Hu? Somebody please explain me the end

posted 21 years ago by galdana30
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I saw the movie on Halloween night and I think is a great movie. But, laugh if you want, but I didn't understand the end. I believed tha the girl who talk with Bob (the kid) was dead - ala "The others" or "the sixth sense"- but at the end....

- Bob dies?

- He go to another dimension?

- All was a dream of the little girl?

- Who or what was she? Somebody ask the guy about his daughter and he answer that he has a son and never was in this town before. So... the girl is his daughter?

Somebody help me!!

Great gore and creepy mood...

[–] DJ-Chojin 11 years ago

another person polodeus posted this else where, its an interview by fulci about the end
"(...) to me the most tragic thing in The House Near the Cemetery is not the people who die, but that little girl who opens for her young friend the gates to the world of the Dead, and saves him from normality (i.e., from the monster who killed the boy's parents), but also plunges him into the Beyond. In fact, those children do not actually die: they just live in another world in which adults have no power. Finally, the most frightening thing is that the house stays there and will receive other visitors".

-- "The following interview was laboriously typed in word by word, by me, Lou Rinaldi, on Wednesday, August 27th, 1997. It was taken from issue 48 of Starburst magazine (an early 80's British publication) Volume 4, Number 12, August 1982 (publisher: Stan Lee). It was Starburst's "Zombies of the Screen" Special Issue. I have typed it in "as is," meaning there will be some confusing parts (for instance, the Starburst preface mentions a second interview, which is seemingly nowhere to be found). Oh well, enjoy!"

http://www.shockingimages.com/fulci/interview2.html

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[–] hardonx 11 years ago

I thought that the ending might be an analogy. Lucy forces Bob towards & through the split tomb stone, head first, uncomfortably through a slit, & he is delivered into life, another life. I.e. Lucy kills her son & delivers him into the next life before Dr Freudstein can.

Also, other stuff in the film might be vague references to The Shining.
Mae Freudstein is Bob's version of Danny Torrance's imaginary friend Mike(?)
Laura Gittleson & others saying to Norman "Of course you've been here before". A reference to Grady telling Jack Torrance he's always been at the hotel?

Ann? The woman in room 237??? ;)

Right! Now to explain the end of City of the living dead....I can't, seriously, can anyone???

[–] erichk9 8 years ago

SImply put - it's the end of The Shining if its Danny who winds up at the party in 1929, or at least upstairs with a babysitter and those cool creepy twins... forever... and ever..

[–] pajamawolfie 8 years ago

I can understand that ending explanation, but the other questions remain unanswered:
EDIT: I added asterisks to questions I came up with a possible answer for, which is listed at the end of the post.

* What was up with Ann and the dad? He didn't seem surprised or upset that she was trying to pry the board off of the basement door, he just wanted her to quit making a racket and then they pretended it never happened and the mom didn't ask how the board came off the door.

* Ann was in with Dr. Freudstein on some of his murders, and her being the creepy mannequin made me think she was some sort of Frankensteined together abomination to be his assistant. But then he kills her and she seems surprised, and she bleeds and dies like a normal woman.

* Why did the original professor hang himself after finding out about Dr. Freudstein? I'd say Freudstein did it, but he wouldn't go to the library to hang him. Maybe the librarians were cursed or in cahoots with Freudstein; they seemed shifty and paranoid. Maybe they did it.

* Why did the dad burn the tape with evidence? Why did he go 200 mi. to look for Freudstein's grave when the wife had already shown him it was in their hallway? Why did he have a picture of the Freudstein house in his apartment?

- He kept saying he'd never been there, yet the townspeople kept saying they'd seen him and he had a daughter. If Ann was his mistress—as a few posters theorized—May was too old the be his daughter by her. Ann didn't look over 25... so he'd have to have impregnated her at 15-18, and May would've lived in the town the whole time, not just visited with him a month ago.

* Why did the real estate lady purposely ignore the wife when she saw her in the street but then come over to the house a few days later acting really chipper? (Even coming inside while they weren't home, though she full well knew a woman had been killed violently in there like, a month ago?)

- If Mrs. Freudstein was taking care of the souls of the children her husband had eaten, why were they still crying? Because the doctor was still "alive"?

- Did May, the little girl, lure Bobby to the house on purpose to join her "family", even though he had no control over his parents moving there?

* Why didn't the parents get rabies shots after getting bitten by the bat? Why didn't they fight back at least a little as the doctor was killing them?

- Why did the quote at the end say stuff about "children are monsters"? I thought the flesh-eating 100 year-old man in the basement was way worse than May or Bob. I mean, it wasn't The Omen.

I get that the house had some supernatural stuff going on (the basement's disappearing and reappearing bodies for example), but there are a LOT of missing pieces here.

Well, I guess you could say that the evil in the house explained Ann's, the professor's, and the father's actions, and maybe even the real estate lady's actions. The "monstrous children" quote didn't fit with it though, IMO.

The movie was kind of like a lower budget and way less pretentious version of The Shining. I may watch this movie again, since I was interrupted in the middle of watching it, and it might make a little more sense if viewed all at once.

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[–] Mrmojo4700 (21457) 3 years ago

I definitely took it that Bob was murdered but his soul would join the little girl as a ghost. The house and Fruedstein would wait for another family.