Jennifer and her sister
Does Jennifer really appears to her sister? Or is Jennifer a fragment of her sister's imagination? This is the most confusing aspect of the movie.
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I think Jennifer does really appear to Mary. But by the films climax we are even fooled into thinking that Mary is a schizo. So when that ending comes (Jennifer at the foot of her mother's bed), it was like being double crossed. Jennifer just made Mary look nuts, so she'd have her mother all to herself by the final shot.
So, now Mary's all alone.
Poor Mary!
see, i think mary is nuts, and by the end, mom is too. i think mary killed them all and mom goes nuts from it all and thinks she is seeing jennifer like her daughtor did. it does run in her side of the family. this would be a great movie to put out on dvd with aternate endings...
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I think by the end of the movie Mary is nuts but Jennifer is also a ghost. Jennifer eggs Mary on to do the killing. At one point in the movie Jennifer says she didn't want to be in the nuthouse so when Mary is put there Jennifer leaves her to finish the job with Mom. That is when Mary is screaming don't leave, don't leave at the end. Jennifer, before leaving speaks through Mary in the nuthouse, saying that they are all to blame which I assumed included Mom. Whether she actually kills Mom or Mom goes crazy is left open. I assume the latter because Sarah, the nurse, would've come running when she screamed and yada yada yada.
Off topic a bit but that psychiatrist in the nuthouse was one cold woman.
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Off topic a bit but that psychiatrist in the nuthouse was one cold woman
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I posted at another thread how I understand the reasoning about this movie so in case anyone is interested, the link is this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083844/board/thread/84601705?d=155387489&p=3#155387489
It's a long post so to shorten things a little bit, I see the movie like this: Mary was a neglected child who starved for attention and love. Her parents had no problem praising her older sister, showing their preference to Jennifer over Mary. That made her so unhappy but kept it all to herself. After her sister's death she felt terribly guilty, but neither she or Kevin told anyone about what happened (Kevin helped her too). When the family moved to a house numbered 13666, it made me clear that the house was haunted by evil ghosts, demons. The Jennifer we, Mary and her mother see is not the ghost of the deceased Jennifer, but an evil spirit posing as her to afflict psychological damage. Such spirit took advantage of Mary's guilt and troubled mind to commit murders with her assistance, trying to make it all look like kid's play on Mary's eyes. That, I think, was the idea Ned Wynn tried to sell us. Instead of just being scared (which I was), I felt so sorry for poor Mary, left alone in the mental hospital after killing all her family. I wondered for many years if such a young kid could ever recover from that kind of ordeal.
Yes, I know, it's just a movie. But I can't help it, it's so well writen and filmed, it carries me away into it. I fell hopeless, hands tied, wishing I could do something for her. I had a serious crush on Robin Ignico for over a decade! Wish I could see a current picture of her.
Off topic a bit but that psychiatrist in the nuthouse was one cold woman
I can only assume that the reason she is cold is because she is numb. Since she works with mentally disturbed people for a living, hearing Mary's doped up confession was nothing compared to the other stuff she's heard over the years.
That's just my interpretation though.
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