So it gets her in the forest, and transports her to hell/purgatory (vaguely remember Tom Felton waffling on about purgatory), which in her case is a deserted shopping mall. Then she decides to get into a tent and it gets her again?
It's the crappest apparition ever. Why didn't it just tear her to pieces the first time round, in the forest?
It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!
Or perhaps it didn get her in the woods, the spirit/demons seems to have entered our world apocalypse style..
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It didn't tear ever anyone to pieces, did it?
But it took Tom Felton's character into the closet the same way it took the girl at the scientific seance, but it embedded Sebastian's character in the wall?
And what was with the "The Grudge" character crawling out of the washer (or dryer?)
The ending was weak, but then the rest of the movie wasn't great. Even Ashley Green in underwear couldn't save it.
No, and it wasn't particularly great at pulling people through walls. Did a half-arsed job on Sebastian Stan.
But it definitely got her in the woods and took her to another place.
I don't even know why I'm trying to rationalise a movie that didn't make any sense. The dog was the best actor in it.
It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film!
i think it was ok, but i got the feeling there was more than just one demon, didnt Felton say They are using the rift to make it to our world? That could explain the grudge girl..
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Maybe it did the same wall-pulling thing in the woods with her, and this is the first time we get to see what happens after that. Like maybe Lydia and Tom Felton and Sebastian Stan all were transported to other places as well (potentially purgatory?). Costco sort of had meaning for Ashley Greene, so maybe each of the other characters was transported to a place that was significant to them, but we didn't see that happen because they weren't main characters/weren't the final death.
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The entity's nature was to destroy the humans' spirit, to destroy their hope, and feed on their fear. To break them down.
Everything the entity did was to accomplish this, including showing her her boyfriend being consumed by the evil.
Another example, the dog died because it mattered in a way to the Ashley Greene character. She was a vet tech and loved animals, and the dog was visiting her.
That's why the cactus died too, because the female character liked it.
The entity did everything it could to destroy their spirits, break them apart & down.
At the end of the film, her mind was all but gone, her spirit completely broken. She went to Costco's tents because it was a good memory of when she went camping with her dad, felt safe. And she had a recent good memory of discussing camping with her now-lost boyfriend.
We see that she finally did give up. And it/they took her.
The film implies this is only the beginning. Now that they're here, they will continue to take more and more humans. The film needed a tighter script, but the premise of it was very good and very chilling.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
Are you going to copy/pasta the same message in every thread?
This film was diabolical - deal with it.
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Biomech
Are you speaking to me?
If so, then what do you care if I copy/paste a reply? If 2 people ask the same or similar question, why not?
I stated the film had a definite evil to it, so 'deal' with what?
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
I wonder if the the ending with Kelly in the empty Costco was her own version of hell or did she actually get killed in the forest when the scene faded to black.
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I got the impression she died in the Costco. She went there to surrender to the evil, but also because this was a good memory 'place'. She remembered camping & the fun she had, and I think she (with her mind already gone & spirit broken) to surrender at least in a place where she had been happy.
A last memory of peace.
"I'd say this cloud is Cumulo Nimbus."
"Didn't he discover America?"
"Penfold, shush."
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In general, the most terrifying things don't just kill you: they torture you mentally and emotionally.
Because mental torture is more subjective and harder to convey, it misses the mark to a lot of viewers, whereas physical torture is more universally understood.
The deserted shopping mall is Kelly's personal purgatory. She's in a strange place alone, she has just witnessed her boyfriend's death, she doesn't know what's real and what's not, and she's exhausted and worn down from defeat. She goes to the tents, which resemble a safe, happy environment, but the things get her even there. She realizes its useless to fight anymore.
The other characters were probably transported to entirely different versions of purgatory. The only thing in common is that those versions will be devoid of any other companionable humans (or pets.)
According to the spoiler, she entered the tent, at the end, to hide from the entity and that she appeared to be in denial that it was taking her. That is not at all the impression that I got. To me, it seemed that she may or may not have entered the tent to hide, but that she soon simply submitted to the inevitable - her own possession. Did anyone else think this? But I'm still not sure why she had to break into a locked store, then go into a flimsy tent, to do whatever she did. Anyone... anyone?... Bueller...
shareAll the talk about individual purgatories made me think of a dream I had. I used to go to the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk and had a dream about that. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wonder a closed amusement park. Not abandoned just closed like the boardwalk closed for the winter. In the dream i was wondering around the closed boardwalk completely alone and it was like the boardwalk kept going on and was unending.
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