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SPOILERS! THEY'RE DEAD TOO!

posted 12 years ago by timothy-5
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When Patti and Samantha are in the kitchen, Samantha says she killed Stryker (and of course she killed Brooke too). She tells Patti, "Don't worry. I won't hurt any of your friends." Patti says, "It's only me." Sam says, "What do you mean." Patti says, "They're dead too." Sam says, "You? But why?" Then she screams as Patti stabs her to death.

Of the people murdered, Samantha killed Brooke and Stryker, and Patti killed everybody else. How did Patti know she was the only one left "it's only me" if she didn't kill Brooke herself? And if she saw that Brooke was murdered, wouldn't she be frightened that there was another killer out there and that she (Patti) could be killed next?

I read somewhere that when Stryker and Brooke fall out of the window, it's the snowmobile knocking them out the window (it was shown for a minute earlier in the film). The shots of Samantha shooting them were spliced in later. Since the scene of Patti and Samantha in the kitchen were among the last to be shot, they still could have fit that scene in with the continuity of the rest of the film.

Any comments, thoughts, feelings, whatever?

Patti, Brooke, somebody?

[–] BrianCTyler 12 years ago

Never thought about that, maybe Patti figured out herself that Samantha killed Brooke too because she knew Brooke and Stryker were in bed together?

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[–] timothy-5 12 years ago

Oh, you might be right. Everything's fair in love -- and auditions. I think I'm in the mood for a sandwich. I love the way Patti acts so cornball in this film.

[–] BrianCTyler 12 years ago

Patti is my favorite character. Obviously not the most sympathetic in the end but certainly the most entertaining.

Also I had no idea that Stryker and Brooke were originally killed by a tractor, where did you get that interesting bit of trivia?

"Cinema is everything to me. I live and breathe films -- I even eat them!"
- Lucio Fulci

[–] timothy-5 12 years ago

Not a tractor - a snowmobile! It's been a while, so I don't exactly remember, but I read an online interview with one of the actors from the film. If you remember, there's a scene with Matthew riding a snowmobile while someone in the Audra mask looks out the window. That scene really looks meaningless without the deleted scene of his crashing through the window, killing Brooke & Stryker. They do show them fall out of the window, but they make it look as though it's from Samantha's gunshot.

When the person in the Audra mask looks out the window, you can tell it's someone with blue eyes. So you know it can't be Laurian or Tara.

[–] BrianCTyler 12 years ago

I always assumed in that scene that after Patti watched Matthew ride off in his snowmobile, she followed him out there to kill him because she was worried he might discover Christie's body.

And I've always thought the identity of the killer was quite obvious, but that might be because I was spoiled before I saw the movie. It's pretty clear that it's a woman and Samantha seemed too obvious while Tara seemed to be the only one genuinely worried about the others. Laurian is barely in the movie, I feel like she must have had some dialogue deleted. I believe the only time she speaks in the film is when she is introduced in the car on the way to the mansion. And yet she's billed before Lynne Griffin, Lesleh Donaldson and Sandra Warren who had much more screen time.

"Cinema is everything to me. I live and breathe films -- I even eat them!"
- Lucio Fulci

[–] timothy-5 12 years ago

I think I read that the other actresses intimidated her and she wound up not being in a lot of the movie. If you notice, KILLER JO-ANNE HANNAH

Second from the bottom, and she had a lot of screen time. Whenever you saw the killer in the Audra mask (except when Samantha was shown putting it on in one scene), that was Jo-Anne Hannah. Even though Lynne Griffin was supposed to be the killer, it was actually Ms. Hannah in the masked scenes. She was the one coming after Christie with a sickle, and all the far away shots of the ice skating were also her.

[–] atd8vii (593) 2 years ago

The snow mobile coming through the window was from Matthews’ filmed death scene. It was never shown in the final cut but they used the footage for when Stryker comes through the bottom window in front of Tara.

[–] Stratego (31081) 5 years ago

It makes no sense. Obviously she didn't know Stryker was dead, so why would she think Brooke was?

[–] Wuchak (8855) 2 years ago

I just saw the film last night and, yeah, this interpretation doesn't fit. It's just a fan theory.