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If you haven’t seen this film I recommend it 100% .It’s an atmospheric thriller.

A synopsis: The typical house at the country at which happen strange things started as always many years ago. A woman tries to help/resolve and… as always there are many surprises!

While I was watching it with a friend of mine, we said many times: “this is the bad guy” or “ah, that had happened” and often at least one of us was right but neither she nor I could imagine how this movie would end.

If someone of you have seen it, please tell me if you had thought when Caroline ( the heroine) tried to escape from the house and the front door was locked and she couldn’t break it even with her car: “What she is trying to do, it’s clear, the borders are closed!” :lol:
I was very disappointed when she actually managed to get out! :roll:
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She managed to get out of closed borders?
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No. The whole scene made me think that the woman is a Darklord and she has closed dthe borders in order to not let Catherine escape from the Manor. But since it wasn't a Ravenloft movie, she manages to escape, using a boat, from a river. If you watch the film you will understand.
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But she really didn't escape, now, did she? :wink:

What I liked most about this movie was the realization, after the 'ending', of just how horrific the events we saw really were. (as in, just who really was lynched & burned, and the then 'incestuous' relationship of the children as they grew up).
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I also enjoyed that part - how you didn't know what was going on, until the very end! I thought I had it all figured out, then suddenly, it was turned on it's head. :shock:

All the misdirection the villains conducted was amazing. Especially when we think that the lawyer is stalking the girl. Then we realize he is...but he's not really stalking her...
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Alarnik wrote:I also enjoyed that part - how you didn't know what was going on, until the very end! I thought I had it all figured out, then suddenly, it was turned on it's head. :shock:
That it was exactly my point, for this reason I liked this movie so much! :D
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