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Anyone else here disturbed by his second kill?

posted 9 years ago by DamianScottSpecOpsPimp
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Like, seriously, it messed me up. Normally I don't get any sort of sympathy/connection to characters in a horror movie but I think Anna Kendrick being only one of two people with actual talent in this movie really made it harder.

AK is just too damn likeable and her death was, in my opinion, far more harsh than any of the other deaths. Combined with the fact that RR actually liked her. It was rough.

I finished the movie about 12 hours ago and went to bed and I'm still kind of disturbed by it.

[–] bigislander72 9 years ago

It was a bummer to see her show up thinking it would be a romantic surprise only to realize she was horribly wrong. Seeing her emotions change from excitement to terror in a flash was disturbing and I felt so bad for her chracter. The neck crack scene and aftermath really topped it off.

[–] GottaWatchThemAll 9 years ago

Yeaah.. Also, I dont think he threw her on the bed to kill her. But how lucky she landed as she did so he could end her suffering.. Would he have just straight up killed her if not ? Oh well this first option fits best tho..

[–] iamvox 8 years ago

Oh, see, I think he did it on purpose, throwing her down with excessive force to hurt her, not just stop her.

Kind of like when he kept saying "I'm sorry" while stabbing Gemma--the two acts are entirely contradictory. After he threw Anna down, he said something like, "I don't know how that happened."

As the cat said, if he didn't plan on killing her, why did he have the knife?

[–] Xcalat3 9 years ago

It was sad to se her die like that she really liked Jerry (until she found out he was a psycho) and she was very sweet and likable.

Libera te tu temet ex inferis.
pro ego sum diabolus, pro ego sum nex.

[–] BronnFlakes 9 years ago

God, I felt so bad for her character. The fact that Anna Kendrick is such so adorable only made it harder to watch her demise.

[–] plutomani 8 years ago

I was surprised how brutally the characters of both Anna and Gemma were killed. I guess it makes it harder to watch since they are both pretty ladies who had done nothing to deserve such a fate. They weren't the stereotypical victims we're used to see in horror/slasher movies, especially not Anna.

But it was an effective way of creating a darkly humorous contrast - seeing them die that miserably, only to have them reappear smiling in his fridge as decapitated heads!

[–] chrisdamato87 8 years ago

I thought it was going to turn out she hears stuff too... But I guess that would have been too predictable

[–] mlaiuppa 8 years ago

Except for Alison in the end, they were all "mercy" killings.

Fiona ran and was hurt, either when she fell or possibly from the deer accident. He did say something to that effect about putting her out of her misery like he had done the deer. About her no longer feeling any pain.

Lisa broke her neck when he threw her down on the bed. If you watch she doesn't move from the neck down, her eyes are panicked and then she had trouble breathing. That all sounds like slow asphyxiation from a broken neck. He says something about easing her pain before he kills her.

I wasn't paying attention when Allison showed up but I think that one was intentional. And that's what sends him off the deep end to the therapist. Giving in to the "cat" side.

[–] fire-baby 8 years ago

yes but don't forget, this is an unreliable narrator (jerry).. we see the movie mainly through his eyes; we only get glimpses of the real world when he took his meds, and through the doctor's and anna kendrick's eyes (forgot her character's name)...
so, yeah, we see kendrick's death as an accident, but who knows if he pushed her that hard on purpose, or threw her down even...
jerry even said it himself, when he was saying he knows right from wrong but still it's like another person is doing it, not him, but it's still him....

It's mercy, compassion and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality...

[–] curryla_07 8 years ago

That's what she gets for being a nosey bitch