Emma


(Spoilers)

So am I correct in assuming that she did not actually get killed? Her death was just a hallucination? At the end of the film, they don't show her body and you only see two body bags being carted out of the house.

The way this character was (mis)handled was really my only gripe and frustration with the film. She was charming and likeable but she was seemingly killed in a throwaway fashion, but at the end it was vague whether she was killed or not. Would have been nice if they had perhaps just shown her alive at the crime scene viewing all the commotion and investigation just to make that one plot point clear, and perhaps make the ending slightly less tragic as well.

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Yes, I'm pretty sure it was all in their heads, because when the sheriff walks through the morgue in the end, we see a clear shot of the dead son, then the father, when the sheriff looks at them, and in the end there are only two body bags being moved. Also this entire scene was presented in a way to establish that much of what happened didn't actually happen, and I don't think the filmmakers would just skip over showing the girl like that if she was actually dead. The more I think about it the less vague I find that part of the ending.

But I have to agree, that the scene in which she was killed took me out of the movie for a second. It didn't quite seem to fit in for some reason. I don't know. However, it didn't really bother me for long.

Cheers.

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I agree the way she was killed it was really cheap she didn't even have a wound or a ripped shirt, just a bloody shirt and I was expecting the dad to shout "This doesn't make any sense" it would kinda soften the hard fail that her murder was.

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yes it was an hallucination made by the witch, just like everything else that happened.

~If the realistic details fails, the movie fails~

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I don't agree it was an hallucination. I think it was real/

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