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Frank's fate wasn't communicated as well as the first...


In the first the same thing happens with the mannequins coming to life and ripping him apart and then they reveal that was just a hallucination and he actually stabbed himself.

In this one it just shows him sitting in a closet with blood all over the left side of his face. His arms seem to be intact which would imply that him being attacked was a hallucination but it doesn't really show how he killed himself, if he did.

They should shown a knife or something in his chest. Or a gunshot. I tried all I could to see if there was anything there but couldn't see. I doubt that the mannequins tearing him apart was supposed to be real, that'd just throw the whole film off. But like I said, they don't do a very good job at communicating how Frank died and I doubt that they actually intended on having the mannequins come to life be real

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Err, Anna stabbed him with the end of a mannequin hand before she got into the car and subsequently died.

I presumed the mannequins attacking him was just a symbolic hallucination while he was himself dying from his injuries - which just so happened to be in the closet.

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He was dying, belly wounds don't necessarily kill immediately, but they kill. And running around creates more blood loss, hence more hallucinations.
And he did rip skin off his face.

But I would not bet my money on Anna being dead. There is still a chance, no matter how tiny.

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Did we not see him holding his precious razor in the end? As if he tried to cut his face off but couldn't, whether it was a matter of time, shock and pain, or blood loss from either the hand stab and/or cutting his face.

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I think the blood on the left side of his face comes from Martin hitting him with the baseball bat in Anna's flat.

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He had been cut, stabbed and hit by a car. I think he just died from slow blood loss from those injuries.

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