OK, the movie was good Halloween fare, and I understand 'suspension of belief' & 'artistic license'. BUT HONESTLY...if you were going to live somewhere, especially with a sick relative, and the leasing person said "it has kind of a history", wouldn't you check it out a little better???? Wouldn't you walk through the whole place???? Wouldn't you ask; "What kind of history...what do you mean"??? YES she was distracted & distraught, but PLEEEZE!
sharePretty sure he went into its history the mom eithe didn't believe or didn't care because they were desperate and the price was right.
"...insert corny quote here"
I think the "what did you know and when did you know it" conversation with the husband made it pretty clear that she was told about the history but decided to live there anyway.
I have had it with these monkey-fightin' snakes on this Monday-to-Friday plane!
i agree, i watched this last night and i got that the mother WAS told, but just kept it secret from everyone else so it wouldnt freak them out i guess.
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It's made explicitly clear she knew about the history of the house. I don't really see the problem. I would not hesitate to buy a beautiful, cheap house just because it was a mortuary / someone died in it / it's built on an indian burial ground / the last owner was a lady gaga fan / whatever else awful history it might have. At the beginning of the film, the characters are supposed to be simple every day people, who are not idiots, so they would have no reason to suspect that paranormal events would take place simply because of the history of a house. The film has way bigger problems than the mother choosing to move into a house that was a mortuary...such as the fact that you have to be a total moron to write a screenplay where a house gets turned from a funeral home into a living space, and no one bothers to remove the furniture (or even the friggin surgical tools) from the embalming room.
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