... want to kill his family? I get why he wanted the 3 boys dead, but didn't get why he wanted to turn on his 2 "daughters"? I think he saw himself as saving his "daughters", but from what or whom?
Somebody help me understand the deranged man's motives.
He's a white male in a Hollywood movie. And white males in Hollywood movies are evil by default, so they do evil things. They don't need a reason.
I'm not joking. It's like asking why Atheists do evil things in Christian movies. The answer is: because it's an Atheist in a Christian movie. And that's it.
He realized the jig was up. One of his daughters was onto him, and the other would most likely catch on soon enough. He probably planned on capturing new people with his trap.
shareSo he just captured and killed literally anyone who drove on the road by his house? They get one car driving there what, every 10 years or so? And what was his motive for doing that? I don't even agree with the OP "getting" why he wants the three boys dead--I get that he doesn't like their behavior and wants to kill them once he gets to know them, but why booby trap the road to force them to the house in the first place?!
And the "jig" would never be up if he didn't do all this nonsense and just lived with his "family" in peace like he wanted in the first place!
And why doesn't he even go through with the suicide pact? He wants to just live by himself in the middle of nowhere for the rest of his life? Why not keep Sarah alive and raise another family with her? That would make much more sense (in his mind, I would imagine). She didn't care about the truth or anything else so it seemed, she just wanted to be with him.
Also, what even happened to the first of the three kids? He drinks a mysterious liquid he finds in the house and goes into a coma--was that some sort of trap somehow? Or does the dude just keep a jar of poison in his room?