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Y'all should yourselves a favor and watch this little indie gem titled The Adventures Of Sebastian Cole. I had to check out of Entourage because I was bored out of my mind and I can only guess so was Grenier because he's terrific when given the right material. I understand he pretty much quit acting, but there's plenty of evidence outside of this shitty show that should reassure you it wasn't because he sucked at it.
I didn't find myself hating Katherine by the end of the film, far from it. Society, her family and the man she ultimately trusted with her heart failed her time and time again. She wasn't selfish, she strived for freedom and did what she had to in order to achieve it.
Except it was Sebastian who wanted the kid out of the way and give Katherine an ultimatum. She was bonding with the child and only deemed him an obstacle when his lover made abundantly clear there wasn't enough room in the manor for the both of them. Katherine already had her unborn child to think about.
I would be more worried about Preston's wife.
It really depends on how much sense it makes for the story and how it is handled.
Jessabelle didn't have an open ending- the bad guy won, that's all.
Unless you believe fate to be set on stone, I'd assume every card reading would predict different outcomes as they took everyday small and big decisions, from taking said card reading lessons to banging each other.
Do Voodoo's practitioners even believe in the notion of heaven and hell? I honestly have no idea but hey let's assume they do for the sake of argument- what makes you think they would have ended up together? For starters, Mommy committed suicide so she's banned up there. Moses was involved in some heavy sh*t while alive, and baby Jessabelle wasn't baptized so she would have ended up stuck in Limbo.
I thought they need Jessie to believe in the arts for the ritual to succeed (I am pretty sure Preston did say something along those lines, and this movie remind me of The Skeleton Key wich hanged on terrorizing Kate Hudson into believing). Notice both the maid and Preston have no issue seing Jessabelle when she wants them to because they both lived their entire lives surrounded by the sh*t Jessie's aunt likely raised her away from.
From a storytelling viewpoint, Emil role was crucial to advance and shed light on Bruno's character arc, not Eva's.
I highly doubt we were ever supposed to see him as Eva's savior, too. Right after Bruno talk about Emil issues with gambling and drinking (notice the brothel patron didn't contradict him), we are told Bruno got him his one stable job - and he loses a lucrative tour in a matter of days by fighting the promoters. THEN he shows up again at Eva's window with promises that basically amount to pipe dreams, betting their future on GAMBLING. Was he really willing to bet Magda's recovery - for which Eva has already given up so much - on sheer luck? He just didn't seem to grasp (or care about) the direness of Eva's predicament at all.
Moreso, even if Emil was truly smitten with Eva (and I believe he was) - do you really think he would have changed his ways for a woman he knew for a few days? His knight in shining armor act was all smoke and mirrors.
Where did I misgender Charlie?
I corrected myself in the thread (it is literally above yours in the expanded view) but only because that was what the director intended, not because it is irrefutably clear in the context of the movie.
The cult most likely put the deer there, but they had no way of knowing a) Charlie was going to have an allergy reaction at a party she wasn't even invited b) Peter will get high and be drive her to the nearest hospital like a madman instead of doing the responsible thing and carry an e pen with him c) Charlie will stick her head out of the window JUST when they were nearing that post.
They sure went through a lot of trouble to accomplish every other step in their ritual for me to believe the A Wizard Dit It trope was being invoked in that particular scene.
Did you even bother reading my following comments, I wonder? :)
Crap, I totally forgot about Annie's specifically saying her brother accused Ellen of "trying to put people" in him before committing suicide. Just read an interview with the director where he basically confirms it. Still, it is weird AF Annie's dad just starved himself to death. Maybe he was privy to his wife extracurricular activities and couldn't bear it anymore.
Also, it would seem Ellen put the demon in Charlie when she was a baby (meaning, she was Paimon all along) and they had a hand in the accident so Paimon's spirit could be "free" again and take possession of a male human body.
There was nothing stopping him from going directly for Peter it that was all that was required. Even if Ellen needed to perform some kind of ritual to bonded them together and Annie's refusal to let her near Peter when he was a baby prevented her from doing so then, they were living in the same house by Ellen's final days.
I did find it weird both Ellen's husband and male child committed suicide, though. Maybe she tried to use them as vessels at some point but for whatever reason didn't work out. She looked quite young in the photos Annie found of her and Joannie, who knows how long has she been worshipping this deity...
Her work was already established as some kind of therapy for her to work out her issues (remember the miniatures with her mother agonizing in the hospital and then the one of Ellen trying to breast-feed Charlie?). It was just her way of dealing with her grief.
Literally, the very moment Annie character stumbles onto her mother's books about spiritualism and the letter about how it all will be worth it the end, I just knew we would be dealing with cultish crap.
Joanne (Joanie?) was suspicious enough (you can't introduce a good samaritan like that in a horror and expect it to be just that); I wish they wouldn't have had Annie mentioning how her doormat was exactly like the ones her mother used to make and settled for a subtler glance of recognition so as to not telegraph Joanne knew Ellen other so early, but what can you do.
I still hoped there would be a twist and the cult crap was just a red herring and there would be something more insidious (no pun intended) about Annie's family history but, alas, no such luck. I thought the ending was the weaker link.
Toni Colette's mother was in a crazy cult which worshipped some ancient demonic deity. She was grooming Charlie to be his vessel, but this entity need a male body so Joanne tricks Tony (sorry, can't remember her character's name) into bringing Charlie's spirit from beyond so she could take possession of Peter's body (any male body would have done, really, but they settled on his brother probably as revenge for the accident) when the time's right and truly become said deity incarnation on Earth. It was pretty straightforward.
It's worse. It not only lacks the complex characters and stylish direction of Verbinski, but the overall look and movements of Samara looked scarier in the first (and that was what, more than fifteen years ago? Holy cow.) Julia's arc is also a cheap reprise of Naomi Watt's character journey, with the already explored "twist" that Samara is truly evil incarnate and "liberating" her only makes everything worse.
At least this one didn't have rabid deer crashing cars, I'll give it that.
A better question would be how Evelyn ended up giving birth in that clinic Naomi Watt's character visits on the second film when it's implied Burke kept her locked up at least until she Samara was born so she won't hurt the child.
A bold choice by the writers and I personally loved it. It makes a lot of sense given Sarah's state of mind at the time - she has just lost every single member of her family at the hands of someone she trusted and had every reason to feel violated by Cam. It was her moment to regain control of her own life and it couldn't be pretty.
Eh, not really. You only got that impression because David was the one who came up with most of the plans and Bryce could run really fast.
Naomi was the only one with the presence of mind to go back for her friend when the house was overrun, and Sharley remained pretty chill through the movie after mourning his boyfriend (the worst of the bunch) and screwing up her backstabbing BFF (sorry, Naomi!). The only one whimpering and crying and howling all the way through was Taylor, but she's also the one with medical knowledge.
Both Bryce and Sharley made a f*ckton of noise when they got in the car accident (which was Bryce's fault - did he seriously couldn't see the little girl was rabid as f*ck?), but that's understandable.
Actually, I'd would argue the biggest offense was David's refusal to a) go back to the herd when he was bitten KNOWING FULL WELL HE WILL TURN b) failure to ask them to put him out of his misery so he couldn't hurt his beloved. AND BRYCE STOOD THERE WATCHING HIM TURN JUST LIKE LIL TAYLOR. They both suck at survival.
Pretty douche move on his part, getting her all hopeful just for laughs and shits.
There's no ominous lingering shoot of said person, so I'd say no.
It is still out there, though, corroborated by the author.