Question for those who found it predictable [Spoilers]

About 15-20 minutes in, I took one look at the room full of mentalists and something clicked. The film was far to by the numbers.

Why quote other people when I like the sound of my own voice?

Bollocks. I'm sure they didn't guess, especially not 20 mins in, maybe they read about it beforehand or had heard the similarity with Identity.

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I for sure didn't catch it at all.
Right to the very end I was under the impression that the doctor
was conducting some kind of sinister mind control experiment on the girls.
Even at the end when the doctor told Kristen the truth about her identity I
thought he was merely lying in order to decieve and confuse her.

It was probably just as well I thought that, otherwise if I had known what
the ending was going to be I wouldn't have watched the entire movie.
And the ending was a real bummer or a dissapointment.
Otherwise I found the movie entertaining all the way through.
It certainly wasn't boring.


Why did the chicken cross the road?
Answer: To get away from Col.Sanders.

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When Iris died. Anyway, that scene pretty much cheats the audience. I thought: "Ok, or none cares about making sense, or the death wasn't real", and then I thought about the multiple personalities plot.

But even if that was a nice concept, I don't think it was well developed. The ghost story as a metaphor of her inner fight was cheap.

Fairly early in the film, I suspected everything might just have been Amber’s imagination. If the murders were real, then almost every staff in the hospital had to be in a colossal conspiracy, since it appeared that no one among the staff seemed to care or even talked about the murders, and the police did not come to investigate either. However, I wasn’t completely sure, since there had in fact been several films in which murders actually took place in a mental institution – Boogeyman 2 being one example.

But the movie was very “predictable” in another (and different) sense. I was certain that no matter what contrived resolution (or “explanation”) the film managed to arrive at the end, all the girls other than Amber were going to be killed off one by one until she was the “final girl”. Equally predictable was the obligatory “the killer is not dead” type final scare or “twist” at the end.

The ONLY thing I called was when "Kristen" came out the mirror. I seen that coming a mile away. It was like when Jason jumped out of the water at the end of Friday the 13th. You can't have a "happy ending" in a horror movie!

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I'll be honest & say I had no idea about the twist until they revealed it. Then again I had never seen Identity before (I have since) & it had been a really really long time since I had seen shutter island. But I'm glad because I really enjoyed it (I'm a sucker for Amber Heard)

I suspected that the film might be about multiple personality disorder before I even saw it. After all, the synopsis mentioned a troubled young woman and strange goings on in a mental institution. There was a 99% chance it was all going to be the figment of one of the characters' imaginations. It feels like there are more films nowadays with that ending than not.

I would have enjoyed the film a lot more if they had faked us into thinking that it was mental illness... and then the paranormal aspect did turn out to be real after all. I was sitting there the whole time in the theater thinking "Please don't let the ending be what I think it's going to be... come on, John, surprise me." As it stands, the film is slightly above average. Hopefully Carpenter's next director gig will be for a more adventurous, less cliched film.

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