The last 5-10 min needed to be redone

I agree. I enjoyed the film for the most part and found it effectively eerie in the first two-thirds, but it fell apart in the final act and the finale kind-of ruined it.

Too much key information was forced into the film in two exposition dumps that were practically back-to-back (the professor and "Deputy So-and-so"), making it feel very contrived and tacked-on. The sequence where Bughuul pulls Ashley into the film was silly and had too much of an "effects-y" feel to it due to the weird Bughuul makeup and whatnot. The scene of Ashley drawing her dead family (after the prolonged shot of the walls painted with blood) was a bit too tacky, and came off as more silly than frightening. And the final jump scare actually made me laugh at loud, because it was too phoned-in and predictable.

The final 10 minutes almost ruined the entire film for me. Thankfully, I enjoyed the first hour of the film enough to forgive it. But the ending really needed to be redone from scratch.

And FURTHERMORE, this is my signature! SERIOUSLY! Did you think I was still talking about my point?

I don't mind the very dark ending so much, but you're right, there was too much crammed into the last few minutes of the film. In my opinion, it should have ended by showing the daughter, axe in hand, setting up the camera, with the audience peering through it at Ethan Hawke, then CUT! No need to show the blood or the other children. We know what happens. Then maybe include a shot of the box of home movies again. But no cliche closeup of Bughuul. He was terrifying up until he did the head pop-in thing. After doing that twice I started to think of him as Mick Thomson from Slipknot, lol! Like, I'd want to hang out with him and talk music!

Agreed. Loved when Ethan Hawke was like "we are leaving now!".

The final 5-10 mins were pretty generic. Less is more. Show glimpses of Mr. boogie would have been great.

I liked how it ended. He moved to the house for the story of the murdered family and missing child. Living there he stumbles upon these horrid videos of other families killed. This brings on even more curiosity, and now it's a puzzle needing solved. All the strange occurrences that is happening to him he feels there is alot more to this story. He gets a little help from the Deputy. At the last minute (unfortunately after he moved already), the deputy (who is a lot smarter than he originally seemed) has debunked the linking to all the murders. I think it was a bit disturbing to think that it's not the house that gets haunted, but the children.

I agree completely. Drives me crazy that the last 10 minutes of the film made it a worse movie than it was. I'd freaking love to be able to re-edit it. Cut way back or remove completely all the shots of the little captive kids making shhh signs(that was just silly), etc-just show the footage that makes it clear they were the killers. Pretty much get rid of nearly all the shots of the kids. End on the box in the attic would have been perfect.

Interesting.

i liked the phone call, but thought the ending was rushed, and i HATED that little girl





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