Ballsy ending. - The Devil Inside (2012) Discussion

[–] zero1733 13 years ago

It's ballsy in the way that it tells the audience to go check out some website to possibly fill in blanks about a lazy ending.

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[–] horrormovieman89 13 years ago

Why is it "lazy"? Why can't a story end like that? I get so annoyed when people assume an ending that they didn't like is "lazy". What I would have hated and thought was lazy was if it ended with Isabella getting all better, reuniting with her mom and everything is happy dappy doo. Which I'm sure that would have happened if this was your more conventional Hollywood film. The movie wasn't good, no, but I liked the ending.

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[–] DotTheEyes 13 years ago

The ending could have been good. But it needed more depth, more time. They should have clearly conveyed the idea of the cameraman deciding to end all their lives rather than continue to fight the demons and watch them possess and repossess people. The way they presented it was too chaotic, too fast, too underdeveloped.

And urging people to visit a website seriously added insult to injury.

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[–] feezees2001 13 years ago

I thought the camera man had also become possessed and that's why he crashed the car.

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[–] JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies 13 years ago

They should have clearly conveyed the idea of the cameraman deciding to end all their lives

In my opinion that was clearly conveyed.

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[–] zero1733 13 years ago

This was worse than a conventional hollywood ending (as terrible as those can often be).

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[–] Luke_Lars 13 years ago

It didn't provide any sort of resolution to the story, or even a final scare to send the audience out on. The movie just kind of... ended. Totally random and pointless. Everyone in my theater groaned as soon as they realized it was over.

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[–] castathinshadow777 13 years ago

Thank you. People don't like a fast paced movie with a fast ending. They need Jennifer Aniston walking off into the sunset with Jake Gyllenhaal with a picnic basket in hand twenty years later. The concept of a low budget, fast paced scare that breaks conventional movie standards appalls certain people, especially here in America.

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[–] westing000 13 years ago

Did I see somebody write that Eraserhead is fast-paced?

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[–] blakndn 13 years ago

I agree, the movie started to take off when the demon jumped into the first priest. I also enjoy foreign horror films (you check out Malfique?), and I thought the ending to this one was a cheap shot, but it had to happen that way because of the set up in the beginning. There was nowhere for the story to go, and once the demon gets into the camera man, whose going to film the rest? I clapped at the end while the audience and my mother booed and demanded their money back. I know why they felt that way, but at least they saw a movie that made them feel something, even if it is anger or disappointment. Most movies leave me feeling indifferent. I was entertained, and pretty much got what I paid for. However, going in, I was not aware it was going to be a docu-drama. I really just wanted a straight horror movie. I haven't seen a good one in YEARS.

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[–] wrlord2001 13 years ago

Clapped and booed... you know the actors and director weren't at the theater, right?

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[–] FecalPeanut 11 years ago

Wolf Creek was NOT fast paced at all. It was the most boring horror film I've ever seen, and I wouldn't watch it again. Not even for $100.

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[–] BobsBrotherFutureman 13 years ago

Yes because watching trash like "The Devil Inside" is more intellectually stimulating than a Jennifer Aniston movie (they're both crap). That definitely made me laugh.

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[–] BeenHereBefore 13 years ago

Your Jennifer Aniston/ Jake Gyllenhal reference makes no sense.... Have you even seen 'The Good Girl'? Try playing some more 6 Degrees to Kevin Bacon before you make anymore fake movie scenarios 8-)

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[–] juliancardona 13 years ago

This is in response to:

"Thank you. People don't like a fast paced movie with a fast ending. They need Jennifer Aniston walking off into the sunset with Jake Gyllenhaal with a picnic basket in hand twenty years later. The concept of a low budget, fast paced scare that breaks conventional movie standards appalls certain people, especially here in America."

No, actually. Remember that everything and anything can be good if done RIGHT. This was a fast paced ending done wrong. Look at Hobo With a Shotgun. Great movie, fast ending, yet so satisfying.

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[–] Shattered_Wake 13 years ago

It was lazy because the writers ran out of original ideas & decided to abruptly end it instead of trying to wrap it up into a meaningful & relevant conclusion.

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[–] ostermjr 13 years ago

Exactly, this X 1million! It's like the writer was going and then just had writer's block. Let's get to exorcism in the car, how do I end this movie? How about give a demon to the driver and make him kill everyone, great! That didn't do crap except abruptly end the film with a crappy and unexplained conclusion. It's just too easy and uncreative.

Not to mention this movie is crazy short, I heard it's like 76minutes or something without credits? What the hell? It seemed half assed. They had all this time to add scares if they wanted and explain more about isabella's mom and even take this story farther, but nope. I would have loved them actually showing found footage to start off about Isabella's mom killing those 3 people that exorcised her like they explained in the beginning. This just seemed half assed and throw together like they were late for the deadline or had writer's block or something.

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[–] LordManhammer 12 years ago

Why do you expect "meaningful and relevant" from horror movies, anyway? I turn to this genre when I need to be shaken out of a world that is constantly searching for meaning and sense.

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[–] mcdillatrilla 13 years ago

I was enjoying this movie. I was like, "Yeah bloody vagina, drowning babies and murder." I was interested with the whole exorcists going against the church to be like... vigilantes I guess. Then they all died then told us to go to a website. I honestly could not believe it. It did not provide an ending which was satisfactory, then it expects the movie goer to go to some website to finish the broken ending? It's like getting a book, and it's missing the last chapter. I paid ten whole dollars to see a finished movie. Not some hour and a half commercial. And as I said, film was pretty good up until then.

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[–] slayerjmk95 13 years ago

This was undoubtedly a good horror movie, but overall only a decent film. The scares, to me, weren't effective at ALL, but helped sustain the creepy and disturbing tone of the movie. I did like the ending though; it's something that you don't want to happen, and yet, it fits. Like Ryan Reynold's movie Buried; no one liked the ending because it's NOTHING like a regular Hollywood resolve (for those who have not seen Buried, SPOILERS ahead). He dies in the coffin before he can be rescued because the rescue teams found the wrong coffin. These kind of endings are the better ones because they catch you off-guard, and its proven because you hate it for being different. When it comes to movies like these, there are no heroic resolves, only more questions

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[–] horrormovieman89 13 years ago

Thats what I liked about it. While no, i didn't love the movie, but its FAR from being the "worst". I liked the ending for the same reason I liked Cloverfield and The Blair Witch Project. We follow our leads(in CF, TBWP and TDI) and see exactly what they see. We don't know anymore than they do. We are essentially characters in these movies. Now Im not saying this automatically makes the films good, its still subjective, but I liked the sudden ending. It was made as realistically as possible(given the source) The directors even mentioned it, which I found awesome. Sometimes theres no "third act" in real life. Things just end. Whether you want them to or not. Thats ballsy. Not "Good" or "bad" ballsy. Just...ballsy. They're getting *beep* for it, yeah, but its because most movie goers aren't used to it. They want conclusion, and honestly, for me, conclusions often make or break a movie(regardless if the first 2 acts were great or terrible). Im happy we didn't get a typical, happy, "every things fine" or "we know everything and know how to finish" ending.

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[–] theangrycomputer 13 years ago

The difference was between TDI and CF/TBWP is that the ends of the latter films felt very final. Neither had an "everything's fine" happy ending, but when they ended, you knew it.

The final scene of TDI came out of nowhere during a horribly paced second (third?) act. Creatively, I can accept that a movie (or real life situation) might end in that way. But with so many characters and subplots only half-developed at that point, I hope you can understand why people would find it very unsatisfying. Even if the effect was intentional and not the result of laziness, it just didn't work. At all.

However, I don't believe for a second that laziness wasn't the main culprit. That's because the REAL ending of the movie was a black screen with white text, redirecting the audience elsewhere for more information. Now THAT is lazy.

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[–] ScorpionTDC 12 years ago

But movies are not real life. The ending to a movie has to be conclusive; you can't just kill everyone in a car crash and call it quits without answering anything!

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[–] Rvrgm 13 years ago

SlayerJMK95 - your example of BURIED reminded me of another. Compare the endings to the original Dutch version of VANISHING to the American remake - in the original (SPOILER, DUH!) the protagonist ends up buried alive as the killer walks away. In the American remake, same thing ... except the heroine suddenly shows up to dig him back up, and the two go and kill the killer ... yup, that's the good 'ol Hollywood "improvement" machine in full force!

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[–] kdogg427 13 years ago

It was a two act movie. I was excited to get to the climax in the third act, and all I got was the feeling of I just got $10 stolen from me. The you could hear an audible sense of disappointment from rest of the people in the theater, as well.

Ballsy, isn't always good, and in this case it's definitely bad.

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[–] stevespin 13 years ago

This was like going to a baseball game and with the score tied going into the 9th inning the park closes down and on the scoreboard reads, "to find out how this game ends, go home and log on to www.espn.com." The 5% of people who don't have computers must feel even more royally ripped off. ;)

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[–] cauwel3 13 years ago

Ballsy is a nice way to put it

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[–] oh_no_mrbill 11 years ago

That is a really great way to put it. Ballsy maybe, stupid beyond comprehension, yes.

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[–] Shattered_Wake 13 years ago

No, the ending was amateurish & pathetic. It's like the end of Automaton Transfusion, which also pissed off a lot of people.

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[–] springz_nineeleven 13 years ago

If it makes a ton of money, there will be a sequal and they lived, if they don;t make a sequel assume they died.

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[–] Shattered_Wake 13 years ago

It already made a ton of money. I have a feeling they'll do a sequel the way Quarantine did. . . straight to DVD.

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[–] Nukeuz 13 years ago

Of course Quarantine didnt do so well, it was a remake of the original version from Spain called [REC]. That one had acclaim, Quarantine didnt because they changed a lot of stuff to make it Hollywood. The sequel to Quarantine isnt even like the sequel to [REC] which i think was a slap in the face to the [REC] franchise.

Anyway, I didnt even like the original Excorcist movie it was kinda stupid to be honest.

Exorcism of Emily Rose was excellent IMO. Probably the best movie of its genre. And was based on true events, although some doctors say she suffered from mental illness i guess you can say that about every exorcism victim because its easy to say that. Doctors quickly come to that conclusion and then ask for their paychecks.

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[–] Shattered_Wake 13 years ago

First of all, I'm well aware of what [Rec] is and am one of the few people who pushed for its theatrical release in the states instead of Quarantine.

But Quarantine WAS a sucess. It just about tripled its budget with domestic numbers and had a good at-home DVD market.

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[–] packro 13 years ago

Except Quarantine was actually a good movie for those of us who never seen REC. You saw REC so that's why you hate Quarantine so much. When you watch a remake of any movie, it's going to be worse than a movie you already liked from another country because you already know the storyline.

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[–] Hypsomnia 13 years ago

Well, I, for one, saw Quarantine before seeing REC(and have yet to see it) and thought that it was awful.

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[–] where_is_my_mind09 13 years ago

Sorry, I don't want to pay for a carefully constructed marketing ploy to get me to log into some STUPID website.
Whatever happened to a movie having a beginning and an END? I don't mind expanding the movie's "universe" by way of comics, novels, websites, etc.
But when you put out a "movie" that expects you to "finish" it by going to a website is not only insulting but downright irresponsible. The sad thing is, this will probably start a stupid ass "trend" of "transmedia" releases. It's a MOVIE dammit. So say farewell to "movies" for this is the beginning of the end for traditional films. Our future generations will accept this foolishness and laugh at the time when a movie "ended".

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[–] horrormovieman89 13 years ago

I honestly was confused when I got home and read about this "website" at the end. I didn't catch it in the credits, must have not noticed. Lol. But still, I didn't go to any website for the movie and I was still content with the actual abrupt ending.

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[–] SheWorksHardForTheMoney 13 years ago

Making a "sad" or "cryptic" ending does not automatically make it good. It seems like some people have it in their heads that if a movie, where good triumphs evil, makes it cheesy and unworthy. I like endings that make sense and fits with the overall tone of the movie. Apparently all you have to do these days is make a *beep* movie with an ending where everyone dies and the "awesome movie buffs" will walk away feeling superior.

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[–] horrormovieman89 13 years ago

I never said it did, but I happened to enjoy it. Im entitled to my taste and opinion as much as you are. But you must admit, regardless if you hated the ending/film or not, the ending was ballsy. They took a risk most film makers won't.

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[–] Lady_Targaryen 13 years ago

Ridiculous ending.

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[–] Robje300 13 years ago

When the camera is broken...........the movie ends. There is nothing weird about that, it's logical. So this is a good ending. Hehehehehe..............

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[–] JrnlofEddieDeezenStudies 13 years ago

Yeah, I liked the ending, too. I was surprised to see so many people hated it. It made sense in the context of the film, and I thought it was appropriate that it was unresolved. Lots of films have unresolved endings that people love instead--for just one example, the ending of An American Werewolf in London, which is both one of my favorite films and favorite endings, and lots of other folks love it, too. So it doesn't really make sense that this one was hated just because of the open-endedness of it, especially given that we should be talking about horror fans here, who by this point, should be fairly used to inconclusive endings (and even with these "faux home movie"-type films--The Blair Witch Project is another example).

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