Unlike most horror films - especially STV ones - this movie actually has good acting, solid production values and a potentially interesting storyline, but the ending comes out of nowhere and blindsides the viewer.
The hints, via flashback, shown along the way do not cohesively add up to the climax. Now, I am not saying that all twist endings need to be obvious, but they have to make sense.
What happens at the conclusion in "Farmhouse" is not only unexpected but totally nonsensical.
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The demons claim that even if the couple were given a second chance that they would still murder their infant, but while the two are hardly saints, they at least are not typical murderers. At least they are tortured by their past and are trying to make a fresh start. I cannot excuse or forgive what they did, but since this movie's moral message is about divine retribution and punishment, it should have portrayed the couple as more heinous than they actually turn out to be. For example, Scarlet does risk her life to try and save Alal (albeit with one less eye!). If Scarlet and her husband are worthy of demonic hell (or purgatory), then what should people even worse than them experience? THAT I would have preferred to see! I actually had more sympathy for these two than for most "innocent" slaughter victims in most horror films.
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If the ending's explication were not so heavy-handed and poorly executed, I would have still given this film a 6/10.
The hints, via flashback, shown along the way do not cohesively add up to the climax. Now, I am not saying that all twist endings need to be obvious, but they have to make sense.
What happens at the conclusion in "Farmhouse" is not only unexpected but totally nonsensical.
SPOILER >>>
The demons claim that even if the couple were given a second chance that they would still murder their infant, but while the two are hardly saints, they at least are not typical murderers. At least they are tortured by their past and are trying to make a fresh start. I cannot excuse or forgive what they did, but since this movie's moral message is about divine retribution and punishment, it should have portrayed the couple as more heinous than they actually turn out to be. For example, Scarlet does risk her life to try and save Alal (albeit with one less eye!). If Scarlet and her husband are worthy of demonic hell (or purgatory), then what should people even worse than them experience? THAT I would have preferred to see! I actually had more sympathy for these two than for most "innocent" slaughter victims in most horror films.
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If the ending's explication were not so heavy-handed and poorly executed, I would have still given this film a 6/10.