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So what were your twist predictions? (SPOILERS, obviously)


A lot of people say they suspected from the beginning that the "grandparents" weren't really the kids' grandparents. I personally didn't see that coming until pretty close to its actual reveal. Because of the grandma's vomiting, I thought it was going to be some kind of demon-possession thing, because it reminded me of The Exorcist. I almost think that might have been a red herring, because that was some seriously projectile vomit. And the way she crawled under the house - it looked super-human. It was way too fast and agile for an elderly woman. She looked like a crab or something. So that also made me think there was something supernatural going on.

I also theorized that the grandma was just an evil person doing some kind of experimenting on the grandpa (because of their work at the hospital counseling, maybe she wanted to make a name for herself as a psychologist), and that's what made him act strange and poop himself, whereas she was just plain evil.

I also thought maybe they really weren't evil at all, and it was going to be a story about not letting your imagination get the best of you or something. Maybe they would have killed the grandparents in self-defense, only they didn't actually need to.

Also, with the mom having done something to the parents she wouldn't 'fess up to, I thought maybe she dabbled in black magic to get them on her side about her boyfriend, only it backfired and turned them evil. That wouldn't explain why she said the grandparents were free to tell the kids what she did if they wanted to, but I'm sure M. Night could find a way to explain it.

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So I watched the film with my sister (who had seen it in theaters) & she already knew what was up.

I hadn't, and suspected that it was some type of demon possession found footage film. My sis told me to pay attention to the part when they were skyping with the mom and she told the kids those weren't their grandparents.

I was definitely in the mode of supernatural/possession genre. I was expecting the grandparents to show up behind the mom and attack her while the kids watched lol...

Kinda cool that it wasn't a possession movie, I liked the twist well enough.

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I agree; I'm not a big fan of supernatural horror. I find it sort of a copout, as far as plots go. You don't have to get creative about how the villain could do this or that, it's just the "He/she is magical!" excuse.

The grandparents as the kids - now that would have been an interesting twist. I did have one theory that I quickly dismissed that maybe the kids were showing early signs of turning evil, so the mom was sending them to the grandparents for "counseling," and they were actually exorcists or something.

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I assumed the grandparents were the kids from the future. Disappointed to say the least.

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I thought the twist would have something to do with werewolves.

I figured the grandmother was spazzing out at night and the father wasn't present so the twist was that the grandparents were actually the fathers parents and both he and the grandmother were werewolves.

I also thought that it was possible that the mother convinced the father to leave the parents then ended up having to kill the father after his werewolf-ism got out of control.That's why the grandmother gets mad when asked about the mother.She killed her son.That would also explain why she used the mothers full name during the interview.

The boy even mentioned werewolves.

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The whole thing was filled with red herrings. Shamalamadingdong had fun by throwing them in, based on his previous movies. He's already done movies about aliens, werewolves, what have you. He built that expectation into this movie. It would not have had the desired effect if one didn't know his movie history. He was counting on people looking for that sort of thing.

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Shamalamadingdong

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I gotta say, I went into this film not knowing much about it and not really thinking about a possible twist. I had no idea they weren't the grandparents right up until their mum pointed it out though the webcam.

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I had no idea what to expect. Someone I know saw it and said that it's easy to figure out and is a big disappointment. I thought the let down was going to be that the parents just suffered from dementia and the kids were overreacting. The "twist" came as a surprise for me.

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I'll admit I didn't expect that twist to be what it was, but it was because I was simply over thinking it. Like honestly what kids/mother would go somewhere to meet up with people unless they knew exactly what they looked like? That just seems stupid so the thought that they weren't actually the grand parents didn't come to me until the reveal. That moment really took me out of the film because of how stupid I found it.

I was expecting it to have been something related to the mother leaving or the boyfriend/husband doing something to them. The reasoning behind the mom leaving and them being so upset was so vague that I figured it'd be fleshed out later in the film during it's "twist".

Either way, this film left me quite disappointed.

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I was expecting it to have been something related to the mother leaving or the boyfriend/husband doing something to them. The reasoning behind the mom leaving and them being so upset was so vague that I figured it'd be fleshed out later in the film during it's "twist".


Me too, I was positive that the reason behind her leaving was going to play a bigger role in the movie.

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I thought the reason for her leaving was going to be pretty major. The movie mentioned that the mom's parents didn't like the boyfriend and I thought that maybe her parents were extremely possessive and didn't want her to have any boyfriend, and that perhaps they were abusive.

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I thought of werewolves; I thought of the "grandparents" doing some magic thing so they could inhabit the kids' bodies (MAJOR squick when you think about them reigniting their sex life).

As soon as the diapers showed up, my idea was that Loretta had performed a home abortion, and the fetus was expelled, but it managed to live somehow, and the grandparents kept it alive in the basement. Being massively deformed, it was still in need of diapers. (I couldn't explain why he put them in the shed, but half-baked ideas are called "half-baked" for a reason.)

The actual twist was good precisely because it wasn't as weird as that.

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