The end of the movie? Help!?!
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apache86 — 17 years ago(April 30, 2008 01:34 PM)
It is the oldest, most predictable ending in the entire horror/thriller genre "Oh, they were dead the whole time???? How original!!!" This theme seems to creep up every few decades, but never with any originality.
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lil_faerie_goddess — 17 years ago(May 14, 2008 12:43 AM)
I actually liked it!! Same as the movie ReekerAlthough I don't like movies that end like this I thought they did it pretty well. Just MY opinion..please don't rip my head off lol
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WalletGuy — 17 years ago(May 30, 2008 01:51 PM)
While I agree that the ending was not original and has been done before in different ways, I thought they did a good job with this twist. The clues that point to this ending are in the opener after the "The Hook" segment and before the Honeymoon segment. But I got so into the stories that they were telling that I forgot the hints about him swerving, the other car on the road, and the lights that he kept seeing. Although this has been done in other movies/stories, I think that doing it in an anthology as part of the framing story was a good idea that was executed well.
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HotGayMan — 16 years ago(January 15, 2010 03:51 PM)
What I don't get is: He apparently was the only one who lived through the crash. But, at the end when he realized that they were dead, they appeared to him and he had crashed but came back for a second and shed a tear, but then Marcia Brady put her hands on his chestwas that her revenge and what killed him? I like to think that Marcia killed him because they were angry at him. But, it seems to me like some of the others here think he just died. What do you think WalletGuy?
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underdawg87 — 17 years ago(May 11, 2008 08:39 PM)
and to answer the second part of your question, they see the honeymoon people because, while he was creating the alternate scenario in his mind, he took subliminal images of his real surroundings and incorporated them into the story his mind was creating as his final moments. kind of like the movie
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JHar888 — 17 years ago(August 04, 2008 10:36 AM)
(spoilers below, and in this whole thread lol)
One theory is that the first story was inspired by him being in an unconscious state and dreaming about the two people because he may have seen them while being near. It doesn't seem likely, just a possibility. -
underdawg87 — 17 years ago(October 22, 2008 03:05 PM)
yeah i came to that conclusion as well. all the stories are just imagined lives of the people he is seeing right before he dies.
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HenryCW — 12 years ago(June 08, 2013 01:57 AM)
My interpretation is that the accident left Cliff seriously injured and semi-conscious while the three others were killed immediately. In his delirious state Cliff imagined that he and his friends got out from the crashed car and built a campfire to fight the cold. Cliff conjured up those stories told by him and Alex, based on the people he saw around him. As examples, the man and woman from the other car involved in the accident were the couple in The Honeymoon, and two of the paramedics were the main character from The Locket and the mother from People Can Lick Too. At the end, Cliff realized that he was dying, but the scene in which he saw his dead friends was imagined too there was nothing that was supernatural in The Campfire. At the end, the scene where the dead Lauren touched Cliff with both hands was simply the paramedics pressing his chest in a last effort to revive him.
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YourLipsareRed — 12 years ago(November 19, 2013 04:32 AM)
While I know this ending has been used several times, like someone else mentioned in The Sixth Sense.
However, I have to admit..this was a movie that I honestly was NOT expecting it out of. For a change, the first time I saw this..I honestly didn't think that was the ending that would come out of it.
I guess I'll cut my losses, and turn my tricks at the magic show..
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SaberRider85 — 12 years ago(January 31, 2014 02:45 PM)
I diddnt see the ending of this neither the sixth sense coming but its not the twist that makes these movies great. Its the fact that it always is a bad ending. Movies with a happy end are never as good as movies with a bad end. Especially in the horror movie genre.