Incident in a Ghostland, a.k.a. Ghostland, came out in 2018 and focuses on a mother and two daughters. The day they shifted to a new home, they were attacked by intruders.
The family manages to dodge their attacks with the help of Mother, as she overpowers them. Disturbing visuals begin to linger. The narrative quickly shifts to the two daughter’s perspectives, and they make sure to give the audience a breathtaking experience.
The audience was totally confused about which of the daughters was in reality and which one was in a hallucination. The ending of the movie looks to fit the whole vibe, but nothing is certain, as the reality shown in the movie is confusing. Maybe Beth is hallucinating.
Let’s take a look at the ending of the movie. Here is your friendly warning: spoilers ahead.
Synopsis
The film begins with Vera and Beth in a car alongside their mother (Pauline). They’re all going to their new home, which they have gotten from Clarisse, their aunt in inheritance.
Beth is a growing horror writer and is reading her latest writing to her mother, and Vera is in the backseat and is not looking interested. It is very clear that Vera is not inspired by her sister’s writing skills and finds her imagination unreal and disgusting.
Soon, they reach their new home, filled with antiques and sinister-looking dolls. A candy truck comes and stops in front of their house. A big Fatman and his accomplice, the truck woman, emerge from the truck and start to attack the sisters and their mother mercilessly.
After that, she moved forward, and sixteen years later, Beth was an author, but still, the incident of that night haunted her. She gets a phone call from her sister, Vera.
She tells her that she is being attacked. It is shown that Pauline and Vera still reside in the same house where that nightmare of an incident happened, and since then, Vera has been in a mental breakdown.
How does the movie end?
Beth is steered into reality, where she is being tortured by the Candy Truck woman and Fatman and has tried many times to escape. In an attempt, she hits one of them with an antique typewriter, and she, alongside Vera, escapes and closes a patrol vehicle nearby.
But Candy Truck woman shows up and kills all the cops and again takes both of them inside the house. In the house, Beth is getting strangled by the Fatman, and the other woman is choking the other captive.
Just as she thinks they’ll die, a cop shoots down both the intruders. The closing scenes of the movie show both of them being rescued and taken on stretchers.
The paramedics ask Beth what her occupation is, to which she replies that she’s an author and writes stories. So, the ending leaves the audience in a bit of a dilemma.
Does the family suffer all the beating and trauma, or was it just Beth’s imagination? We saw Beth falling into this illusion of being safe before. Maybe all three of them were trapped, but Beth may have escaped, but just in her mind.
Who were the Candy Truck Woman and Fat Man? What happened to them?
As Beth is in the ambulance, she sees the coroner loading a huge body into their van, indicating that the Fatman is dead. The Candy Truck woman was also shot many times, so it is safe to say that she is also dead.
But again, there is a slight possibility that Beth is imagining all this. Maybe both of them are alive and still being held captive by the two tormentors.
Remember that both the tormentors were shown dead in the early scenes, but later they were shown alive.
The movie successfully holds back and only gives what is required to keep the audience on the trip and in the mystery—especially the villains of the movie. The origin of both of them is never talked about in the movie.
