The movie needed a happy end because it was scary & depressing from the start , Better ending would destroy the depressing atmosphere this movie leaves .
The wife didn't deserve to die that way , She was all good family caring from the start .
What you guys think ?
I never expected the movie to end the way it did. It would've been better if the family survived the ordeal, but the ending did actually wrap things up.
shareIn this genre nowadays everyone dies except one that will carry on the supernatural being to kill more :P. This was probably the most predictable movie I have seen in a long time =(.
shareIt was a happy ending in that this horrible movie eventually ended. To be fair I think the production values were top notch but the plot absolutely sucked.
No, it didn't need a happy ending.
None of the families deserved to die the way they did, but this is horror.
The ending tied the story together, it was death after moving....they died after moving. It's how this particular "ghost/goblin/whatever" worked.
particularly the "lawn work" family. that was nasty enough and there was finally sound added out of nowhere.
shareEthan Hawke would've had to have taken steps to stop Mr. Boogie. Since he was just investigating, and not doing anything about it, then ran when things got too real, it seemed inevitable that the same fate would befall his family. It would've seemed like a cop-out if they had somehow survived.
shareI don't think a happy ending would have worked at all. The movie was so downbeat that a happy ending would have seemed arbitrary.
I did enjoy it. Haven't had a good legitimate scare from a movie in a while.
I agree. It should have had a happy ending. Mr. Rogers should have come back from the dead, embraced the entire family, and taken them all out for a pizza and ice cream soda at Chuck E. Cheese.
shareThe ending was probably my favorite part of the movie. I hate when horror movies try to wrap things up all nice and happy.
shareI LOVED the ending....apart from the very last part where there's a still shot of the box of films and projector....then Bughuul's (?) head pops into frame, woulda been much better if they'd have ended it with him carrying Ashley into the projection.....fade to black.
This film was like the BEST EVER creepypasta made into movie form...thoroughly enjoyed it and scary as hell, the featured reviewer was right, it feels like something from the "Golden Age" of late 70's/early=mid 80's horror. (Hyphen key broken.)
Ever since he discovered that the family that died in their new house had lived at one of the other murder houses, I thought they were all going to be connected that way, so I figured they were going to get murdered at their old home when they moved out.
Even assuming all of that, the call from Deputy So and So was still a great way to reveal the connection. He was still thinking of it as the work of a serial killer, and then Ellison watches the extended videos and sees the missing children before he passes out.
What Horror flic has a happy ending?
shareHostel (2005) technically has a happy ending, until the sequel that is, but yeah, it was a happy ending. He escaped and killed the bad guy in the train station and/or kidnapped the bad guys daughter.
shareTy, I hadn't seen that one.
Fwiw Silent Hill Revelations has a happy ending in as much as everyone was happy to be done with it.
Wish I could remember but someone did a study of horror films and their endings and how they relate to the general mood of the public. For example, during the Vietnam War more and more movies ended in despair. I'm sure many can name a few of them. Better times got happy endings. This movie should never have had a happy ending because all the guy did was watch the movies, he did hope burning them ended it, but that's about all he did. The curse was looking at the painting/movies of the evil,-- of course as I'm typing, I don't think the killer child ever saw the picture/movie of Mr Boogie, she did see the dead girl, but not the evil god (or whatever). I guess that's a plot hole.
shareThe curse was looking at the painting/movies of the evil,-- of course as I'm typing, I don't think the killer child ever saw the picture/movie of Mr Boogie, she did see the dead girl, but not the evil god (or whatever). I guess that's a plot hole.
"I don't think the killer child ever saw the picture/movie of Mr Boogie"
In that scene where the little girl was in her bed and the ghost girl is in the corner beside her there is a picture drawing on the wall of the family hanging from the tree and Mr. Boogie's face is by the tree trunk. So the murderous girl child did see an image of Mr. Boogie ~ granted, one she drew herself, which kinda smacks of cheating unless the ghost girl drew it, but still...