"Lost Souls" (WARNING-MOVIE SPOILER!)

[Vinnie_Virginslayer]

At the end of Lost Souls starring Winona Ryder (released late last year, now on video)
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She shoots the Kellson in the head before he can transform into the Anti-Christ.

1. Isn’t a popular translation of Revelations that the anti-Christ will survive a mortal head wound, only to miraculously recover? Would this mean that Kellson will come back to life? Sequel? Or is the ending deliberately done this way to stir debate? Or did the writers just fuck up?

2. Since she often seemed to hallucinate, which also could have legit been demons chasing her, since she was once supposedly possessed, is it possible the Winona Ryder character was a nutcase who imagined the whole thing, and shot Kellson because she was delusional?

Other things that make me wonder she dreamed up the whole thing:
-She could have placed that pentangle under his bed, blamed it on his girlfreind, to set her up to kill her. The blonde was none too convincing.
-Maybe some of the scenes were imagined, like the almost dreamlike sequence where they go into the satanic church and Kellson starts shooting everybody. I also found it peculiar that the little girl she imagined from the coffee shop was in the evil church as well.
-Is it possible the author was so caught up in her hysteria he started imagining all of it was true as well? Remember her saying in the church “don’t shoot them- it will mean you accept evil?”.
-Her priest friend who tried to kill Kellson- maybe he got caught up in her delusions.

To me, the better ending would have been after she shot him, pan back to the clock which shows it ticking normally, to imply maybe she was a nutjob who imagined the whole thing. You’d have to change a lot of the scenes in the movie, but THAT would have been awesome.
Just food for thought . . .interesting flick.

[elfkin477]

*Originally posted by Vinnie Virginslayer *
**At the end of Lost Souls starring Winona Ryder (released late last year, now on video)
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She shoots the Kellson in the head before he can transform into the Anti-Christ.

1. Isn’t a popular translation of Revelations that the anti-Christ will survive a mortal head wound, only to miraculously recover? Would this mean that Kellson will come back to life? Sequel? Or is the ending deliberately done this way to stir debate? Or did the writers just fuck up?

** You said it yourself, she shot him before he transforms into the anti-christ. Therefore he is a mortal still;since he didn’t become the anti-christ, he can’t come back. I’m not sure why so many people moan over the ending of the movie, it’s the only one that makes sense after the church scene.

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To me, the better ending would have been after she shot him, pan back to the clock which shows it ticking normally, to imply maybe she was a nutjob who imagined the whole thing. **

How would that change things? Had they showed the clock afterwards, it would have been normal no matter what, since the guy died before turning into the anti-christ, making things go back to normal.

I found this movie more plausable, than End of Days, though. If she was going to have the devil’s baby, why didn’t they just give her a hysterectomy? That’d prevent the conception from occuring…would have been a much more mundane movie, though.

[Vinnie_Virginslayer]

Elf, I enjoyed the ending too. Like End of Days, I was sitting there going “Okay, how soon do we get the stupid last scene where Kellon turns into the Devil, and Winona fights him off in this huge special effects battle?”

It’s not a great movie, but the way it ends helps distinguish itself from many other “Devil Movies”.

As for changing the ending with the clock, well, I guess it could have been done another way, but I feel that if it turns out she was totally crazy, it would make for a mindblower ending similar to what M. Night Slimshadyin does with his movies. Again, you’d have to change many of the scenes, but I think the writers blew a big opportunity.

Just an idea.