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Ahh...what exactly happened in this movie?? SPOILER ALERT

posted 16 years ago by GroovyDoom
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This is one of only a handful of films I've watched where it ended and I still didn't know what the heck happened.

So let me get this straight: Jessica used to be with Dimitri and then ten years later, Dimitri reappears and she is suddenly pregnant. But Dimitri is dead and has been for ten years, 'the devil' sent him forward in time to try and save his own life by bringing Jessica's demonic baby into the world.

So why does the demon in Jessica react angrily when Dimitri arrives at the house? It seems to hate him, but wasn't it the demon who sent him there in the first place? Why did it need Dimitri?

And what happens at the very end of the movie...the doctor finds a baby in the room and it has no mouth, and meanwhile Dimitri is back in the car wreck, dead for real this time.

Now here's the really dumb question: WHY? All of that voiceover stuff where the devil's voice is supposed to be talking to Dimitri, it seems to have a reason for doing all of this. What was the point?

I usually like movies like "Beyond the Door", but I watched the new Code Red DVD last night and absolutely hated the experience. This may be a case of a film where material was cut out of it and it belonged on the cutting room floor. I remember liking the movie a little bit more before I saw the uncut version.

[–] deeeecraig 16 years ago

Lemme try to lay this out as best as I can inrerpret: Dimitri was given ten more years to live at the time of the car wreck. The car wreck was put in some cosmic limbo, never completed. At the end of this 10 year period, the Devil commands Dimitri to deliver the baby from Jessica in exchange for Dimitri being reborn within the baby so that he may live even longer than those additional 10 years-that's the "Bargain With the Devil" that the song suggests. Ostensibly, until such time as Dimitri is reborn, the Devil is in the baby's body, literally and physically possessing Jessica from inside as if she were a "Trojan Horse."

. . . or, at least, that's what the Devil tells Dimitri. It turns out that the Devil just possessed Dimitri's ex-girlfriend to taunt Dimitri, and coupled the taunt with the false promise. The baby is born, dead and, for no good reason but to be creepy-weird, without a mouth, appearing inside Dimitri's clothes at the end of the film. Meanwhile, the Devil, after leaving Jessica, possesses Ken, who opens the present that he, in Jessica's body, gave Ken at the beginning of the film. A replica of Dimitri's death car is in the box, and the devil throws it in the water, somehow magically causing Dimitri's car to complete the fall from 10 years' before, thus sending him to Heck.

It's really not supposed to make much sense, but that is sort of what happens.

[–] GroovyDoom 16 years ago

Thanks for that, it sounds so much better the way you retell it. You should have written the script!