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Fridge Horror
- When Stella calls her dad, crying about how if she goes missing she didn't intentionally leave him, and he is confused before thinking and then mournfully pleading that she wasn't responsible for her mother. He thought she was about to commit suicide.
- A good number of the original stories were not about monsters and ghosts-they were about everyday humans committing heinous, selfish crimes(The Bed By The Window, Maybe You Will Remember, Wonderful Sausage, The White Satin Evening gown, etc.). Given Sarah's book can affect real-life objects and people, it's quite likely it can also turn certain victims into psychopaths for when it can't summon some fantastical monster.
- Considering how mundane those stories are ("Wonderful Sausage" being the only one with any real action worth adapting into the film), its unlikely these stories exist in Sarah's book.
- Stella, Ramon, and Chuck are found breaking into the backrooms of a hospital, with people they know having mysteriously gone missing in the past few days (at the time of the arrest, now including Chuck, and one of whom had been known to antagonize them), another person they know having been wounded and committed to a mental institution, and with a book in their possession that's filled with stories of those same people being terrorized and killed. They get locked overnight in a jail cell, only for an officer to be killed, his body left in front of their jail cells, Stella and Ramon escaped, and Ramon having stolen and crashed a police car to boot. Despite how obscenely suspicious this would look to the police the next day, the film ends without even trying to address how they dodged the charges, with Ramon going into the military and Stella free to publish stories and go road-tripping with her dad and Ruth.
- Wouldn't the police station have shown signs of someone breaking in? Stella was actually free to go and only stayed to be with Ramon and since her father appears to know everything by the end, he might have helped them cover up by saying that Stella was allowed to go home and so was Ramon on the condition he join the draft the next day - so they don't need to have been there when the attack happened. And the signs of damage would show far too much to expect from two children. But of course the Time Skip is vague enough to suggest that it's a few weeks afterwards when Stella and Ruth are on the road trip - enough time for Stella to get her story published, have a public opinion forming of her and Ruth to be discharged from the hospital. So there probably were some weeks of questioning, but we don't see it because it would ruin the flow of the ending.
