The movie for me was scary but not much for a long while, especially not until the ending. The context of these strange happenings make all the difference to me. So while one could think that there might be just a lunatic out there, who does all this shit for his sadistic satisfaction (which would give give a purely human reason to everything), the ending however shifted everything and made it MUCH scarier, at least for me.
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When she ran into this empty scary house in the middle of the night in the middle of the woods, shortly before the climax, and she suddenly sees her missing friend apparently deliriously standing in the corner of some basement room in complete darkness for who knows how long, facing the walls, is so uncanny to me that it almost made me shit my pants. It is a great ending scene since it tops all the events with a heavy surrealistic touch, without explaining anything to the viewer, so your imagination has to fill in the gaps. Was there a real Witch after all? What happened to him? Is there something unexplainable out there?
The movie for me was scary but not much for a long while, especially not until the ending. The context of these strange happenings make all the difference to me. So while one could think that there might be just a lunatic out there, who does all this shit for his sadistic satisfaction (which would give give a purely human reason to everything), the ending however shifted everything and made it MUCH scarier, at least for me.
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When she ran into this empty scary house in the middle of the night in the middle of the woods, shortly before the climax, and she suddenly sees her missing friend apparently deliriously standing in the corner of some basement room in complete darkness for who knows how long, facing the walls, is so uncanny to me that it almost made me shit my pants. It is a great ending scene since it tops all the events with a heavy surrealistic touch, without explaining anything to the viewer, so your imagination has to fill in the gaps. Was there a real Witch after all? What happened to him? Is there something unexplainable out there?