Same here, I though the moment he would have opened the door he would have realized he was dead.
That would have match perfectly with the police discovering the holes in the basement.
I thought the police would have found his body, and at the same time he would open the door.
Would have been much better imho.
i was expecting that both of the kids were dead.
shareI thought it was gonna turn out that he'd died, too.
shareGOOD. There was no need for one. This played out nicely with no BS.
shareAgreed.
Right. A twist would have been cheap.
shareTotally agree!!
shareExactly. 👍
shareexactly. We are so trained for everything to end poorly. I was SO not wanting him to be dead. I enjoyed this movie and the end.
shareWell there was plenty of BS. The sister having special powers. Dead kids helping over a disconnected phone. A brother who just happens to be obsessed with the case yet oblivious to his brother being a serial killer, of course until the exact moment when everything culminates.
shareCompletely agree!
shareThe twist I was expecting was that Max, the idiot brother of the grabber, was his multiple personality. It didn't make sense to me that night after night, the grabber sits shirtless in the kitchen with a mask on and a belt in hand. Like where is Max when this is happening? LOL! So when Max finally found the basement and went down, I was super sure Finney's reaction wouldn't change, that he would still be scared because to him, it's still the same guy. That twist didn't happen. LOL!
shareIt would also match with the dialog where Finn asked The Grabber he's the one killing the kids and he said no that's the other guy (Max.)
shareYeah I was expecting that too, especially at the beginning when he said "I'm not going to hurt you," making me think that the grabber personality was just the grabber, and not the killer. I'm glad it turned out to be a straight forward film though, it was much more effective that way.
shareI was waiting for it all to make sense, but it never did.
Honestly, this movie didn’t know what it wanted to be: It starts at dark, child abuse-themed, then serial killer/murder mystery, then ghosts and random psychological elements pop up that barely get any explanation (wtf!).
The Black Phone is a mess. How it got so much praise and recognition is beyond me!
It was established very early on in the movie that psychic ability runs deep in that family.
sharei was both surprised and kinda happy
shareThat's the thing! The moment when so eone discovers the truth but not at the expense of the truth.
shareIm glad it didn't have one, its too easy nowadays to have twist just for the sake of having one, this was a pleasant surprise and to me the "twist" was it didn't have one!
I thought at one point the brother was gonna be killed by Finney when he discovered it was his home and went into the basement or the police was going to think he was the killer after previously searching his house so was happy it played out as it should of,
i thought they were all dead.
shareIt didn't need one and worked really well without a twist.
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