What is the end about in the uninvited?

Answer 1

At the end of the movie, we find out that Anna has imagined that her sister Alex was alive, when she actually died in the fire that killed the mother. If you watch the movie again, you'll see that no one else actually interacts with Alex (did you see the "Sixth Sense?"). In flashbacks you see what actually happened months earlier on the day the mother and Alex died in the fire.....Anna was angry after seeing her father having sex with the nurse Rachel so she went down to the boathouse to get some fuel to set fire to the big house. Anna doesn't turn the valve off completely causing the fuel to leak out (which Anna didn't do that part on purpose) and Alex stumbles in and causes the lantern to fall, igniting the fuel and the boathouse. I don't quite understand why the sick mother was confined to the boathouse, except maybe so the father could have sex with the nurse, but why the mother was living there isn't really important anyway. So the mother and Alex die in an explosion that was pure accident. Though it appears that Anna did want to burn something that night, it wasn't supposed to be the boathouse, it was just a horrible accident. This event lead Anna to a psychotic break and to the psyche ward we see her in the beginning. During her time at the psyche ward, she met the murderer, Mildred Kemp, who shared her stories of murder with Anna. Anna is released and goes home to find the nurse sharing the home with the father and doesn't trust her. Anna must have repressed the memories of how the fire truly started that night, as no one realizes that Anna played any part in it (again, although accidental). So in order to cope, she IMAGINES her sister is still alive (watch again, no one else ever sees Alex) and she imagines the nurse planned the mother's death (I guess because it is to stressful to admit her actions caused it). This is where the Mildred Kemp murder stories come in--Anna IMAGINES that Mildred was never caught (though at the end we see she has been institutionalized all along), and that Rachel is Mildred's new identity. Therefore, Anna convinces herself, as she tries to convince the sherrif, that Rachel is Mildred, the murderer of the Wright children (the three kids that are haunting her). The sheriff obviously doesn't believe Anna's account of Rachel's identity, which he wouldn't if he knew the real Mildred Kemp was institutionalized. Rachel does sedate her, but we find out at the end, it is because she truly wanted what was best for Anna, not to murder her. Anna wakes up and believes Alex killed Rachel in self defense. Then the father comes along, snaps Anna out of her delusion and we see that Anna killed Rachel. I believe Anna killed her for two reasons: repressed anger from catching her having an affair with the father the night of the fire AND because she was delusional and truly thought Rachel was going to kill her. The boy Matt was just collateral damage because he saw Anna leaving the boathouse the night of the fire and tried to tell her the night he died (we see that in the flashbacks at the end). I believe the haunting from the mother's corpse and the children were trying to make Anna aware of her part in everything and trying to bring her to reality. Rachel did change her identity, but as the father said, I guess it was to escape an abusive relationship. And when Anna says at the end, that she finished what she started, I believe she means that she finally killed the woman that she originally intended to harm the night of the fire, the woman she caught having the affair with her father--Rachel.

Answer 2

In the movie "The Uninvited," the ending reveals a twist where it is revealed that one of the characters was actually responsible for the tragic events that occurred. The main character must confront this truth and deal with the repercussions of these revelations.