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The ending? Spoilers

posted 7 years ago by Mister Babadook (2684)
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So the whole thing was just a random nut job who goes to open houses and stays in the house and fucks with the people staying there? Thats all there was to it?

I was thinking there was gonna be a little more to it than that, the first half of the movie was really good, it felt like it was leading to something good. I was looking forward to seeing how it was gonna end, some big twist, some explanation for all the stuff that was happening? and we get nothing, no explanation for a damn thing, we never find out who the guy in the house is, why he's doing it or anything.

It didn't even show how Logan died, it cut away then cuts back and he's laying there dead. Did the mom even die really? She got stabbed but depending on where she was stabbed she could have lived, but we'll never know. I mean her death was stupid as fuck, Logan goes down in the basement and she just runs into his knife in the dark?

Also why didn't the killer just kill Logan when he knocked him out? Why'd he just pour water on him and leave him there? Why didn't he kill him when he had him pinned down and was on top of him? He just took his contact lenses out and let him go. Again no explanation for any of this.

We spend the whole movie watching everything thats going on, an hour and 20 minutes watching creepy things happen to them, thinking at some point we're gonna find out why this is all happening and who is doing this and we don't. You're just left feeling unsatisfied and disappointed and like you've just wasted alot of time.

[–] skatterbrane (42) 7 years ago

Couldn’t agree more. This was just disappointing, to say the least. One thing that bugged the crap out of me was the water heater. Why did they take the flashlight down there only to turn it off while fumbling for the matches to relight the pilot? And they both did that! Also, you wouldn’t instantly have cold water in the shower just because the hot water heater was turned off. Nor would you instantly have hot the second it’s turned back on.

[–] Kingswood (1260) 6 years ago

Or how about the fact someone built a million dollar home, yet didn't bother to put a light switch in the basement where the water heater is located?

[–] chilone (17864) 7 years ago

None of it makes any sense. Why the set table with the candles and telephone? What was the point of Logan being a runner? Why was Chris snooping around in the house? What was all the rubble and weird tunnels in the basement? What was Martha's purpose for being in the movie? And who in blue, perfect hell is going to let someone take their contact lenses out without clamping their eyes tightly shut!?!?!?!?!

[–] Mister Babadook (2684) 7 years ago

Yeah when you think about it him being a runner never came into play at all, you'd think it would help him at the end and he could outrun the killer, but no at the end he's practically blind and just stumbling around the woods. So him being a runner played no part in the movie at all other than scenes to fill time and have him by himself.

In the Last House on The Left remake the daughter was a swimmer on a swim team, she loved to swim, and guess what? It actually came into play in the movie when the killers had her she jumped in the lake and almost swam away from them. Logan being a runner had no kind of bearing on anything in the movie.

[–] beith1 (364) 7 years ago

this was just a really, really bad movie. i wish i listen to the reviewers. if someone set my table like that, i would have been out of there with the cops. they should have slept at chris’s place.

[–] Mister Babadook (2684) 7 years ago

Exactly lol, they continue to stay after its obvious theres someone in the house fucking with them. I mean Logan literally sees his bowl of cereal setting downstairs when he had just had it in his room a few minutes ago and his mom was in the shower, so who the fuck else does he think moved it? Does he think he moved it and forgot about it within the span of 5 minutes?

Plus his phone was literally gone from the charger he just put it in and his mom said she didn't see it, so he just goes "Huh well i must've lost it somewhere". Like everything that should be clearly telling them to get out theres someone in the house, they just brush it off and make up some excuse for it.

Also the water heater should've been a clear as fuck day sign someone is there, she turns it on and 5 minutes later goes back down stairs and the switch is turned off, did the wind blow it off? they just ignore all these signs and continue to live there as if everything is fine, know why? cause they wouldn't have a movie if they left.

[–] Rinn13 (167) 7 years ago

This movie has two major problems, beyond its blatantly bad writing:

1. The reliance on its characters being the dumbest fucking people on the planet at all times, so as to constantly fall for the bad guy's shit.

2. This new obsession filmmakers seem to have with "subverting expectations".

The only rational reason I can think of, that this film is SUCH a vague abortion of pointless scenes with ZERO explanation or resolution whatsoever, OUTSIDE of the filmmakers simply being THAT bad at filmmaking, is that they fell in love with their own cleverness, and thought what an artsy "shock" it would be to the audience, for the film to deliberately HAVE no point. The film itself is doing to the audience what the phantom killer is doing to the family the entire time: fucking with you.

Either, regardless of whether this film's badness has rhyme or reason, or not, it doesn't change the fact that it IS a bad film. I honestly wonder, when actors sign up for shitty horror films like this, and they read the script, are they consciously AWARE that like "Man...this movie's not gonna make any goddamn sense. This might be REALLY bad."? One of my favorite young actresses is Annalise Basso, who has proven that she is a really talented, smart young woman. And yet, she keeps taking roles that are SO poorly written, and acting in horror films that are SO incredibly dumb. It just leaves me scratching my head as to why you would take these parts, except just to merely take a part period.

[–] Kawada_Kira (7282) 6 years ago

The film itself is doing to the audience what the phantom killer is doing to the family the entire time: fucking with you.

This exactly.

[–] macken74 (653) 6 years ago

Yeah that's the bewildering thing about films like this ! surely to god any actor or actress no matter what level of the business they are at , must question the scripts they get handed and think , oh wait a minute this script makes no fuking sense whatsoever !! i may not do this film !!

But nope , seems nobody does question it and this is the shit the viewer has to suffer !

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77378) 6 years ago

Reasonable acting, good production values, great set design and a mildy interesting story idea completely undone by a garbage script and worthless final act

Agreed...Big waste of time

[–] vicky_lc2001 (1907) 6 years ago

Agreed, hence my 2/5 rating or bad rating on Netflix.

[–] MasterPenguin (165) 6 years ago

It was a stupid movie.

To many directors are trying to capture the same shock and awe with their twist ending like M.Night did. Even though it’s been shown time and time again the movie has to be pretty damned good to pull it off.

Most times twist endings that don’t fit the norm, suck. Especially in horror/thriller movies.

If I want to see a movie where it’s bit more true to life and doesn’t have a happy ending. I’ll watch true life movies about crime.

Seriously though what made this worse is whoever was behind the film, doesn’t know how to tell a story.

They set literally like 15 different things up. Making you go oh ok there is something deeper here. When nope it’s just a psycho who kills at open houses.

If that’s the ending you are going for, then freaking just follow that. Focus purely on a psycho who kills people cause he gets into the house during an open house.

Don’t have 10 other things going on making you think there is more to the movie. Keep it simple, “dad dies, stay at aunts house as they have fuck all money, killer gets them”. Add in a newspaper story and tv news report talking about the open house killer or something and bam there is your movie. Cliche as all hell but cliches are cliches for a reason. Hell do it well enough and you set it up for a sequel because people want to see the killer get caught.

God just such a waste of my time this movie was. There is nothing good about this movie.

[–] macken74 (653) 6 years ago

Absolutely agree ! I just hope all involved in this lousy dumb movie have had some sort of feedback just how much people think this film sucks !!! .... especially the idiotic ending !

[–] MasterPenguin (165) 6 years ago

Agreed.

The director and writers need to go back to school and learn the basics of movie telling again.