ANYTHING FOR JACKSON (2020) Ending Explained

[Applause] how's it going everybody welcome to found flicks on this thing explained we're looking at anything for jackson following a sinister couple that hatch a supernatural scheme to resurrect their dead grandson via a pregnant woman i quite enjoy this in particular due to its standing out as quite distinct in a sea of similar kinds of setups rather than a typical possession and then exorcism to remove the spirit here we essentially have a reverse exorcism a family hoping to bring back their lost grandson back to life via a living host another aspect that helps it stand out is that our main characters are old not the typical protagonist in horror flicks which is another interesting aspect as the couple isn't exactly the holiest since they kidnap a girl and are using her for their evil means and everything yet somehow we still feel sympathetic to the characters and their plight throughout in spite of their undeniably evil actions this to me is by far the strongest aspect to the film and everything hinges on the relationship as we continue to care and hope that our couple's plan works even as things inevitably spiral out of control and they are dragged further into meddling with the forces of evil it all leads to a quite ambiguous ending that leaves many many things of the story left hanging in the air and that is why we are here today so let's dive into anything for jackson breaking down the story including the real reason why the couple is driven so far as well as explaining just what the heck exactly happens in the end hearing a record playing that daisy daisy give me your answer true tune we enter into a quite nice looking house an older woman audrey doing some cooking her ever faithful husband henry enters with concerns about an uneven hem on his pants she can't even see it but he's worried that he looks like some kind of rapper guy yeah right though actually if rappers started dressing like him that would be amazing i'll button up and vest and whatnot she seems quite preoccupied with the time when she assures her he has his eye out she's here audrey blurts him remarking oh she's early both run outside and a few moments later bring in a young pregnant woman shannon cautioning to watch the baby and audrey bops her with a candle stick and they stuff her in a lift she starts coming too finding herself bound and gagged a boy is there and smiles saying aloha means both hello and goodbye audrey calls out she's up and reads from a pre-prepared statement introducing themselves first and foremost apologizing for scaring her but they found that this was the best way for her to go missing and they mean her and her unborn child no harm but make no mistake they must do it and won't waver no matter how much she begs henry leaves to do a test and audrey removes the gag shannon immediately screaming for help yeah we can't hear a peep outside pleased with the soundproofing they had done to the room wow they really had this thing planned out yeah you don't mess around when it comes to jackson she keeps screaming anyway audrey informing her that no one can hear her why are you doing this she shrieks and audrey calmly reveals that they need to bring their grandson back and this is the only way her seeing the same boy playing nearby him she asked confuse you can see him audrey gasps she continues that he must know that she's here to save him as jackson is dead jackie loves music she smiles and puts on a jaunty big band record shannon continuing to scream for help to no avail she tells her husband about jackson showing himself to shannon the um appearing he remembers appearing to the host is a good thing she nods he's coming back to us henry thinks he should stay home today but she argues that they need to keep up appearances and do no changes in their routine you're right he admits i always am she smiles wishing for him to have a great day outside he finds rory wanting to shovel his snow he's a bit aggressive about doing it asking for just two minutes to clear a path but henry fibs that his wife is sick and needs some rest he only presses further i'll get my shovel it's whisper quiet hey get the picture here rory he keeps things genial sniffing to come back in a couple days and asked to move his truck as he's a tad late for work audrey enters with a tray of pills telling her don't worry they're just vitamins oh sure i have every reason to trust you don't i lady but to prove her point she takes one herself she digs through her jacket finding shanna's phone with some effort she manages to get to it and unlocks it but audrey returns and snatches it up playing mac footage from a nanny cam and a nearby stuffed bear she sees her typing in her password she growls to give me back my [ __ ] phone audrey hiding that bad language is not good for the baby she uses the phone as she says for a little insurance on their end and does a status update on her social media as well as setting up a date with some random guy asking if she's dtf which takes her a minute to decode to her dismay if you can't even say it you shouldn't be doing it thinking that is a good rule of thumb she proudly calls henry telling him that she's figured it out navigating phones no small feat for the elderly him complimenting her as a full-blown techie now believe me we thought of everything no one has more time than a grieving family she says ominously and on edge man storms into henry's office worried about having hpv and starts making a scene demanding to see him now the nurse pipes up he's supposed to be with miss becker right now aka shannon now understanding that she's his patient he lies that she came in earlier to her confusion mentioning the hospital keeps asking about her since she's 37 weeks pregnant and everything through a few flashbacks that fill in the gaps we see how the couple came to their plan clutching an old ratty book which he brings up is a thousand years old she asks him to watch she pricks her finger drawing some blood and drips it onto a dead crow she then reads a passage from the book and the crow starts spasming back to life looking good as new he's baffled as to how she did it shrugging him found it in the book and needed two tests to see if it was real he's still uncertain you can't just bring dead things back to life her shouting back well she's been doing it all morning beaming it works the book is real we can do this we're getting him back my love sure trust the book of evil that always works out he snaps back to the present outside of a community center andre noting that he seems nervous well yeah i got a kidnap lady in my house and i'm using evil spells and stuff that will get to you on the way in they say hi to some weirdo ian handing him back a book which he says that they can keep and to break the awkwardness henry whisks her away he still follows after bringing up the book henry asked him to look for but according to some other experts in the subs so maybe not exactly experts believe it doesn't exist but does have a lead on a guy who sold it he divulges to audrey that he did ask ian for help out of desperation but that was before he found the book kind of hilariously they're here for a church of satan meeting the leader welcoming everyone to some snacks after the meeting to ian's annoyance they all don hoods and light black candles over a table adorned with a pentagram they chant glory be to satan father of earth and to lucifer our guiding light hail satan everyone exclaims in unison man they really let everyone use the community center nowadays we next see henry meeting shannon and seemingly vetting her as a candidate for their unseemly purposes apparently she was in thinking that she had a tapeworm but it's not that it's that she's pregnant he informs her she's dumbfounded henry apologizing thinking it would be good news he vaguely mentions there are options but is also happy to talk to the father but he's long gone she tells him and as far as family it sounds like things are shaky with her mom concerned that telling her this would just give her another reason to call her a failure and he's like ding ding i got us one sending a message to audrey expressing this it looks like i'm having a baby she sighs yes yes you are henry says and starts tearing up chuckling oh he just gets emotional sometimes too yeah but not for the reason that he's making it seem to her he asks for a photo for the records excusing at his age his memory sometimes needs a little reminder should i say cheese she asks say miracle he decides seeing the photo is now framed in her now prison room she wakes up alarmingly coughing up blood the couple on each side of her setting up some kind of ritual thing she puts some blood on her forehead shannon pleading that they don't have to do this her promising the worst is over no not even close she starts reciting we ask for an audience wishing to invite our dark lord to a seat in our home she takes out a knife both cutting their hands my blood is your blood one side with a toy that belonged to jackson and what looks like a heart on the other huh where'd you pick that up shannon starts choking her head forced back and the lights in the room start blinking the record starts playing by itself and thunder crashes outside she spots the boy by the wall telling him to come and take the baby henry encouraging you can do it come on little dixie on the photo an upside down cross appears on shannon's head the object on the ground starting to sizzle she looks back seeing a frightening beast sending audrey screaming it goes over to shannon and the spasming suddenly stops they check her heartbeat and she along with the baby are okay audrey is confident upon hearing that that the baby is in fact jackson's she knows it's her grandson's heartbeat but even if they did it it appears to come with some unwelcome side effects henry wakes up to what looks like audrey in the bathroom moaning that he had a hell of a time getting sleep her still turned away he continues that he had his doubts but admits that she was right his phone rings and it's audrey asking for help with the groceries oh then who's in the bathroom we hear something clink to the floor teeth it seems one by one we see it's a woman flossing way too hard mouth bloody as more teeth start falling out audrey enters asking what's wrong and looking back they vanished apparently they opened the door to letting some ghosties in things continue growing more complicated when henry finds detective bellows there in search of the missing girl she retraces her steps including an appointment with him he uses the same line from before that she cancelled well then when did she call and as fib is exposed by talia entering correcting that she didn't call remember you said you saw her earlier on the day oh right my mistake mentioning he saw her walking by and bellows probes further for details saying she walked by his house around 9 00 am she thanks him and takes her leave he calls audrey in a panic and audrey tells him to relax they've taken all of this into account but he spills about telling bellows he saw her walking by their house and then she becomes distressed about the potential of many more follow-ups as a result of this there's a knock at the door probably the police she fumes it's rather a little girl in a classic ghost outfit innocently saying trick or treat and holding out a bucket she tells him that she doesn't like games calling it cruel and they just keep repeating trick or treat trick or treat there's a knock on the back door and when peering out the window it's the same kid no she moans locking the door she sees them inside now on the other side of a bathroom door it creepily slides open on its own trick or treat please she repeats she runs upstairs to the phone and they appear again scurrying past henry answers the phone her breathless i need help she's trying to get me maybe they should take your soul he responds the kid hits the elevator button and she runs down as it comes up to the floor and now they're inside staring dead-eyed now appearing much larger in size and boasting a much more menacing male's voice trick or treat she falls onto the stairs and the sheet goes limp into nothing on top of her she talks to shannon about it her having heard the screams and reveals it was actually her daughter she saw she used to dress as a ghost every year for halloween she tried and failed to get her to try any other costume but she refused they like what they like she shrugs and can't believe that she ever tried to change that thinking it's silly now she asked what happened to her daughter audrey responding dreamily i love my jackson and jackson loves his gammy's cookies okay all right sure alone shannon slams the bed to knock the camera teddy down and starts working at the cuffs half of the room suddenly dark and bathed in blue another ghost with a bag on their head appears all twisted and groaning dragging its body across the floor it stands and runs at her then rag dolls back he lifts his arm over the bed frame climbing towards her and gets right on top biting at her belly audrey enters and he turns to her disappearing when henry shows up she's now starting to understand the nature of the forces that they've called directly into their lives thinking they might be in over their head considering they made a mistake he shuts off the light telling her to get some sleep we're still sitting in the dark looking restless in the morning there's another frightening sign related to what they've done not on the patio seeing a murder of crows flying around certain that it's due to what they did oh no he groans noticing rory is back he's asked audrey with sedating shannon and goes to intervene he jovially tells him he's here to clean his drive henry telling him it's still okay and he tries to close the door on him he explains that he called his wife and told her that they wouldn't need him for a month or two and rory reveals that he hasn't actually been home in a while she's gone and chucked him he apologizes offering to send flowers or something and rory's attitude changes perking up that he's gonna give him a freebie and he ain't leaving until he lets him do his thang leaving him no choice but to go along he yells out hello to audrey and he's glad that she's feeling better henry instructing her to just smile and wave then gasps suddenly anxious what's wrong well we don't know what the other ghosts are or why they are perhaps they did it incorrectly and it's not actually jackson in the womb comforting her as usual he tells her in a few days that they'll have him back and be on their way to mexico and plans to burn down the whole house along with any ghosties lingering inside strangely rory calls out in agreement yep you did it right he's in there and coming back to you and then proceeds to jam his head into the snow blower shooting out blood everywhere and a tooth lodges in the window's glass well that was certainly shocking and since we know rory wasn't a ghost it looks like something is able to possess anyone nearby and cause them to take their own lives that's what you get for trying to shovel people's snow for free you deserve it so long to your cranium pottery goes to clean shannon up spotting another ghost on the way and bestows her some knitted protectors to slip over the cuffs well how thoughtful thank you shannon asks if they're going to kill her after all this and audrey stays silent thinking well does that mean yes seemingly not bringing up that their first rule was that no harm would come to her or the baby as she said and getting wistful says that she reminds her of her own daughter remembering that she was a good and smart girl that always knew what she wanted so when i try to bring her back she believes that she can't come back she was in the car but they didn't actually lose her right away flashing back to her daughter after the accident in a wheelchair audrey saying that they renovated the entire house to accommodate her every need in the hopes that she would be able to try and move on her shedding a tear and looking dazed she admits that she didn't realize how impossible it is to move on after losing a child until she lost hers getting emotional seeing the elevator door open we hear a body threading down below meaning that her daughter took her own life and indeed was not able to ever overcome the loss although audrey is positive that she'd be happy knowing they're helping to bring back jackson elsewhere henry is dealing with the pieces of rory but wait what about when the snow melts didn't really think that part through did you it perhaps won't be that long before being caught as he's interrupted by a call from bellows following up on some notes and wants to stop by the house for a chat he does his best to persuade her to meet at his clinic the next day but she's steadfast who just come there besides she's already in the neighborhood no way getting around this one henry shannon tries to appeal once more to audrey to keep her alive suggesting she wants to be the boy's mother along with them saying that she understands where they're coming from although she doesn't agree with it well can't really blame me there just as she'd do anything for him she's just trying to do the same for her baby she's uncertain and well there's also the unavoidable fact that you guys is all who's gonna look after him after they pass this seems to wear her down audrey asking you'd really do that and you're not just saying it i'll do whatever you want please she begs before they can discuss further there's a knock at the door but we know exactly who it is when henry runs back home and bellows is in the girl's room telling him that they're both under arrest he tries to claim that he did it all solo and audrey had nothing to do with it while shannon is crying to be let out bellows tells them it's all over now they just have to do one thing and blows her brains out everyone freaking out the shots still ringing in their ears henry is quickly back to business asking if she called for backup fortunately she didn't and knowing they have to get rid of her body too drag her out of the room leaving a nice blood trail well great now i gotta clean that up too these ghosts are making a mess all over the place henry is clearly growing more nervous his leg shaking uncontrollably hearing a loud banging at the door it's that weirdo ian from their satan group asking if they actually do have the book henry divulges that he went through several museums as well as experts to find it in the end flying to jerusalem where he bought it off a shady looking guy who seemed more than pleased to be rid of it and it must have come at a hefty price telling ian well they don't have a retirement plan left he chunks it out noting that it is actually written in several different languages dialects as well as religions and must have been pieced together over many many years thinking it might indeed be the oldest book in the entire world they ask ian for his help as they're at least bound through the church he shows a particular chunk off involving invoking a spirit into a new vessel ian brings up well first off you can't invite anyone specifically and sighs realizing they must have done it what if we did then i'd be an idiot for standing here he replies the couple fearfully grabbing each other's hands they detail what they specifically did asking a demon called sergat to bring him back this demon is listed as the one who opens all locks and he corrects them yes sir god is the one who opens the gate between our world and the world of tormented souls and is technically the first step in bringing someone back but clarifies it's not a private invitation the problem being they open this door and now every ghost in purgatory is gonna start crawling out to find a host asking which host they used they bring him to shannon's room asking if jackson is in there no but he can be he offers they actually did do the right thing but only completed half of the ceremony now they need to follow it up and trade the life to invite him in trade the life audrey whimpers yeah you gotta trade the mother's life for the tormented one's soul to be able to come back well so much for the couple's number one rule of no harm being done to her i guess but there is no stopping them now they inquire if ian can perform the ritual of course i can he proudly declares he's been studying his whole life for this but still can't believe that it's all real he has to keep the book when they're done along with requesting a fee of 10 g's quite a businessman there in and they decide to go for it tomorrow as he needs a bit of time to get some more stuff together he asks if they've been seeing ghosts which yeah they're gonna need some salt to spread around shannon to keep the ghost from getting to her calling your unborn baby literally a free ticket back to life for them oh and go ahead and spread some around yourselves too as the ghosts aren't too picky when it comes to host selection anyone is fair game henry places assault barrier at the door and shannon brings up what she discussed with audrey about being his mom wanting to talk to him about that he certainly removes his glasses seething you know how many people he could sacrifice to bring him back all of them whatever it takes you can't win a moral argument with me i already made a deal with the devil well he's definitely resigned himself to the whole evil thing i mean is this kid really that great jeez a lot of efforts for this little [ __ ] i know the point is he's doing it for his wife really and to help her try to move on and that's what he really means here to me and this is quickly confirmed when shannon suggests that he hasn't made the deal yet he counters the deal was truly made the day that they lost jackson i know you love him she starts and he interjects her getting teary-eyed yeah it's all really for his wife not truly just about the kid we then come to understand just where her guilt comes from as she was the one that was actually driving the car the day it crashed so obviously she feels responsible for losing jackson as well as her daughter pretty heartbreaking as henry notes he realizes that she would never accept what happened and couldn't expect her to come back up ever so instead he joined her going back down down into the evil hole we join ian pouring over the book which perhaps unsurprisingly is occurring in his mother's basement while listening to heavy metal his mom keeps calling down to him about having some dinner and growing increasingly annoyed each time no mom i don't want any dinner i'm reading my satan book he finally loses his cool and packs up a bunch of books and returns to the house getting no answer he lets himself in the ghost cop still here after her death audrey groaning she's been doing that all night wacky ghost roommates what are you gonna do so the ritual begins getting henry to read from a bookmark page as well as placing dead mice at specific points in the yard ian reminds henry that he is going to have to kill shannon but he's not worried about it he warns there are potential graver consequences if he hesitates at all and the demon can sense that he's not ready they'll all die henry has a moment of weakness questioning if this will even work which draws ian's ire telling him to never doubt his presence around me ever again hardcore dude hardcore audrey paints a pentagram on the floor and now your time is growing short shannon again brings up the whole not killing me thing she lies saying they did discuss it and both agreed it's a great idea and goes on laying out a fantasy baby room with a crib for her and everything she's like oh dope idea let's do that instead of the me dying she says she's kind of hungry and audrey is happy to fix her something giving her a chance to break free she manages to get one hand loose and uses it to pour water near her baby hole and smashes the glass grabbing a shard she yells out to audrey who comes rushing in telling her her water broke immediately fetching henry kind of hilariously they're still out putting mice in the art while ian [ __ ] about the girl that runs the meetings not even a true believer and calls her a stupid skank that doesn't even really love the church oh man that is too funny really this guy is a weirdo sure i trust him let's do this evil incantation thing to reiterate what a goob ian really is when they come into shannon's room he breaks the salt barrier when walking over it i mean come on man he gets to reading the incantation and henry gets a text from yolanda the girl ian was just complaining about saying that she needs to talk to him he ignores it at first it looks like we got some real evil magic going here the pentagram started to come to life and he finally answers to it upset yolanda ian has snap she tells him and killed his mother last night even drawing symbols all over the walls some cops are here asking about the church and she's just annoying because as suspected she doesn't actually believe in any of this [ __ ] now boy well there you go went crazy and killed his mom just because she wanted to give you some tindies and now we also know he's definitely not to be trusted with this whole thing set up here i mean just what the hell does this guy know not much it seems and cuts his hand and takes heavy steps towards them the couple is worried asking if everything is alright and keep asking how we are supposed to know jackson is inside him snapping when i'm finished shannon pulls her shard on audrey demanding to be released and of course henry immediately starts undoing her restraints ian stops him calling us bigger than your stupid wife and throws shannon the keys i just want jackson back audrey cries and he coldly stabs her in the gut a mother's a mother he says so yeah now audrey is filling the role in the ritual as the required mother sacrificed to bring back the other soul as you mentioned the ghosts aren't picky henry takes her clothes as she starts to flutter away ian flicks blood on them inviting the demon to take whichever one they want while shannon gets the rest of her chains undone ian cockles he's coming back and weirdly pulls back his hair so you can't even trust this guy's hair how many secrets does this guy have ridiculous also what the [ __ ] is going on with his hair shannon gets him in the leg with a shard a ghost guy enters and starts smooching on him dragging him out of the room when i had taken my notes i was like whoa did that actually really happen because it was so hilariously weird as it seems to be that ian's fate is to become a love monkey for this demon nothing but crazy gold with this guy the bagged up ghost enters crawling over shannon spinning around all a bundle of broken bones henry tells her to go asking to forgive them hearing squishy squelching sounds from within a demonic arm rising from within his back well that's probably not good shannon flees the room and has turned into a freaking ghost house bonanza up in here going by floss lady and the kid ghost and outside a creepy voice calls out trick or treat it's voice echoing and who must be our big main demon dude shows up shannon finds the car keys has to deal with the cop again doing her thing for the one billionth time outside the snowblower is cranking out snow mixed with gore encountering a slashed up rory moaning about seeing his kids what's more interesting though is she looks up to the window upstairs in her room seeing little jacks in there and another hand appears lifting him away who took him no idea but it does make sense that jackson would be there she's been seeing him pretty much the whole time as we remember it was torture's soul and everything he just didn't want to miss the party you know shannon hightails it out of there driving deep into a forced area and comes to a stop she spots someone walking in the road who stops for a bit noticing that they appear pregnant too and then they just keep lumbering along off into the woods shannon looks down to her stomach hearing the child's heartbeat right a bit too unpacked there as you remember where their well-intentioned plan went astray and guess what it's all ian's fault he broke the barrier around the room so any demons or spirits or whatever can just come waltzing in if the barrier had stayed in place since we know jackson was in the room it could have gone as intended with shannon being sacrificed and jackson's soul resurrected in her body as a host point being it could have been anything at this point that got in there and thanks to some clues i found from the filmmakers we know the demon at the end is called van who is eternally pregnant and this is also who we saw climbing out of henry so it went from audrey who died then was able to come to fruition in person via henry's soul using him as the host it's also worth pointing out that the first part of the ritual was directed at shannon which was to open the doorway between the worlds and it isn't closed in the end which makes me believe that thanks to vanth being eternally pregnant shannon will be as well which is kinda weird or a demon baby i mean who knows but it definitely seems like ian's intent was to leave the door open and bring this demon through not what they were going for in the beginning well that brings us to the conclusion of this ending explained on anything for jackson you know you really feel for the couple and their plight throughout and it's weirdly a bummer to see their plan go so horribly wrong but hey that's what happens when you dabble with evil with that dingbat in as your guide and before we go don't forget you can send me requests for any movies or tv shows you'd like to see me explain by sending them my way on any of my social media accounts at found flicks got a little 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Channel: FoundFlix

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Id: dvCEthL7PK0

Length: 26min 23sec (1583 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 14 2021