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So many questions..

posted 12 years ago by abricru
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I watched this on my computer and the picture was very dark so a lot of the times I felt like I couldn't see what they were talking about. Also I am a little hard of hearing and not used to the Australian accent so I felt like I might have missed out on some important things that were said. I wish the movie had been close captioned on Netflix.

Anyway, I did not understand why the brother made the fake pictures. Did he think it would comfort the family or was he trying to scare them? Or was there some other reason?

At the end, are we supposed to realize that even though he faked the photos, her ghost really was in them? And that is supposed to make it all scary looking back?

I guess it would be creepy to see the ghost of your dead daughter, but then again it could be comforting. Why would they be afraid of their own daughter?

The very very last image shown during the credits... who was that? The mother? Was Alice in that picture? I didn't see anything scary in it.

Normally movies that show scary things in photographs really scare me, starting with The Omen when the photos had mysterious lines in them and then the subject ended up dying in a manner suggested by the photos. I think I have seen so many though that it has conditioned me not to be as scared. Alice's cellphone video did give me the creeps however. Still don't know why she buried her other things with it and why she never told anyone about what she saw.

If anyone can help me out with the questions I'd appreciate it. Also, did they ever end up remaking it in the US? Thanks.

[–] keisher426 12 years ago

The brother explained his mother was so upset he thought maybe if they exhumed the body it would answer any questions as far as it really being his sister and if he could create doubt in his parent's minds then the body would be tested.

Yes you were supposed to see her ghost was there all along just not where we were told to look.

They didn't seem afraid, just unsettled. The things going on in her room, the dream her mother had it was all bothersome.

She probably never told anyone what she saw because who would believe her? Granted she buried the evidence, but I think she was so freaked out by what she encountered (like her friends said she was upset) she might have forgotten she had evidence on that phone.

Buster:I don’t want no part of your tight-ass country-club, you freak bitch!

[–] Lifeguardfan 12 years ago

The thing that doesn't make sense with that explanation though (that the brother wanted the body to be exhumed to give the mom peace of mind) is that he started doctoring photos before his mother even speculated that Alice could have possibly been alive.

And even then, I really doubt anyone would go to that length to create that much doubt just to get the body exhumed. I'm sure he could have created doubt in her mind verbally without having to create all these fake images.

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[–] bruuno-1 12 years ago

I actually believe he was trying to convince his dad, not his mom. The dad was the one who had seen the body and had no doubts that she was dead. And as the mother said, she wasn't really sure that is why the son did it. One of those things where even the son may not really know his motivation, just something he felt he needed to do.

[–] bruuno-1 12 years ago

It isn't supposed to be a jump scare movie. It is a slow burn movie that is supposed to be unsettling and creepy. The family wasn't supposed to be 'scared' either. If you notice at no point they consider moving until after everything is over. If they were 'scared' they would have moved when they first thought there was a ghost.

[–] sandifay62 12 years ago

Yeah, these are people that probably accepted death as a part of life and while not believing in ghosts were more disturbed that their daughter's spirit might be in pain and trying to reach them.