Someone please tell me what this movie meant at the end

This is only my personal interpretation:

They are characters in a 'media world' for our entertainment and we the viewer are the 'they' they keep talking about. As in 'they' (us) need a story with a beginning, middle and end. Essentially it's telling us that nothing we see in movies is original. It's first been passed down as an oral story, then as a play, then as a book, then as pictures, then as grainy video, then as clear video on a computer, etc. Everything he finds is the same story but in a different medium.

This story of people in the cabin/house is being repeated over and over for entertainment (the French man in the RV tells of how it happened to the students who came with him), each time being redone in better resolution. You can see the evolution of story to written to pics to video basically.

That's what I think anyway. And when at the very end they look up and see a monster, it's us watching through a camera. It's almost the same as Cabin in the Woods with it's 'movie characters & us watching' idea...


"What? Do you wanna just sit around and be wrong?" - Liz Lemon

I don't think that the filmmakers were interested so much in 'saying something' as they were in 'leaving something' with the viewer. In the final scene, it is crystal clear that something very dire and horrendous is about to happen. 'Who, What, When, or How' takes a backseat to the dreaded event itself. That last impression is what's important, and 'the resolution'(pun intended!)is just superfluous.

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