I've never written a review with spoilers in my entire 5+ years of writing reviews (and I write a review for just about every movie I watch, mostly so I can remember all that I've watched) but this movie can't be rated without spoilers to do it justice! Here we go:
-First odd thing: She is trying to get an illegal passport. Her new friend at work says she can help her - so Amanda gives this person half the money, and the friend is going to loan her the rest. Friend disappears?? Asks boss for phone/address to find friend, he fires her! Friend is never seen again - did she run with the money? Was she killed? Who knows?
[boring...] The next 40+ minutes of Amanda trying to get her deposit back from her landlord (Red). He continues to tell her places she can pick it up, until finally, they had to go back house...
-Next odd thing(s) last 1/3 of the movie: They arrive back at the house, finally meeting Red's brother, 'Becker' and he's angry, weird, threatening and just NUTS! He grabs Amanda and takes her to the basement (off limits to tenants) to sacrifice her to a monster that looks like she has hands coming out of 'where her lady parts should be'. During this time, Amanda is either having flashbacks or complete hallucinations about her Uncle (who came to the house to save her, but was killed by Becker) and suffocating her mother, who had been quite sick for years, causing Amanda to put her life on hold, so she could be free? Real or hallucination? IDK?? After she 'killed her mom' the monster retreated back to her box. Amanda looked in the box, only to find a box of bones?? WTF?
Becker tells Red to check the basement, cause, 'this didn't feel right'. I believe he was referring to a gash on his hand hadn't healed (Red explains earlier, his brother gets 'healed' by the monster and sacrifices). Amanda is already upstairs and kills Red with this badass sword, then goes after Becker, who is preparing another girl for sacrifice. After a struggle, Becker breaks her ankle, but she kills Becker. Then, there was a shot of the monster eating Red.
As Amanda is leaving the house, Red is standing in the living room as if nothing had happened to him? Then, Amanda's ankle heals, and she smiles, as if she knows who healed her (but it ended there.. no explanation) I dug for hours... no one has any idea. What I think the ending means: I think Amanda really DID kill her Mom, and the monster sensed that, leaving Amanda alive as her new cohort, healing her while she feeds the monster.
I know this is a lot to read - but it's much shorter than the book, and will save you a lot of time watching this nonsensical horror flick (my favorite types of movies).
- Same horror movie set up: Girl in a new place (most of them illegal aliens), new job, very little money no family etc. So, she takes a room in this old, ran-down creepy house (sees/hears from strange women, also foreign - are they real??). Job is not going well, boss threatens to fire her.
-First odd thing: She is trying to get an illegal passport. Her new friend at work says she can help her - so Amanda gives this person half the money, and the friend is going to loan her the rest. Friend disappears?? Asks boss for phone/address to find friend, he fires her! Friend is never seen again - did she run with the money? Was she killed? Who knows?
[boring...] The next 40+ minutes of Amanda trying to get her deposit back from her landlord (Red). He continues to tell her places she can pick it up, until finally, they had to go back house...
-Next odd thing(s) last 1/3 of the movie: They arrive back at the house, finally meeting Red's brother, 'Becker' and he's angry, weird, threatening and just NUTS! He grabs Amanda and takes her to the basement (off limits to tenants) to sacrifice her to a monster that looks like she has hands coming out of 'where her lady parts should be'. During this time, Amanda is either having flashbacks or complete hallucinations about her Uncle (who came to the house to save her, but was killed by Becker) and suffocating her mother, who had been quite sick for years, causing Amanda to put her life on hold, so she could be free? Real or hallucination? IDK?? After she 'killed her mom' the monster retreated back to her box. Amanda looked in the box, only to find a box of bones?? WTF?
Becker tells Red to check the basement, cause, 'this didn't feel right'. I believe he was referring to a gash on his hand hadn't healed (Red explains earlier, his brother gets 'healed' by the monster and sacrifices). Amanda is already upstairs and kills Red with this badass sword, then goes after Becker, who is preparing another girl for sacrifice. After a struggle, Becker breaks her ankle, but she kills Becker. Then, there was a shot of the monster eating Red.
As Amanda is leaving the house, Red is standing in the living room as if nothing had happened to him? Then, Amanda's ankle heals, and she smiles, as if she knows who healed her (but it ended there.. no explanation) I dug for hours... no one has any idea. What I think the ending means: I think Amanda really DID kill her Mom, and the monster sensed that, leaving Amanda alive as her new cohort, healing her while she feeds the monster.
I know this is a lot to read - but it's much shorter than the book, and will save you a lot of time watching this nonsensical horror flick (my favorite types of movies).