YMMV / A Haunting at Silver Falls

• Complete Monster:
  • Anne Sanders, despite initially acting like a caring-if-flawed aunt to Jordan, is actually a brutal Serial Killer with a love of violence and cruelty. The true killer of the Dahl Twins, Anne happily allows their father, Wyatt, to be incarcerated and later put to death for the crime. All the while, Anne continues claiming victims, in particular targeting women and girls who have experiences with the ghosts of the twins; one such victim was her own twin sister. Allowing her husband Kevin to rape them, Anne murders each victim and disposes of them in the falls while claiming them as suicides. After bullying Jordan throughout the film, Anne finally decides to try and kill her niece, physically abusing Kevin to make him comply and then gleefully trying to go after Larry. Not even death could stop her, as she returns in the sequel as a ghost to torment a man named Jack into becoming another killer, and goes after Jordan once more.
  • First movie only: Kevin Sanders is introduced as Jordan's friendly uncle, but he turns out to be anything but. A disgusting Serial Rapist, Kevin has eyes on his niece throughout the film, touching her on several occasions while barely maintaining the façade of normalcy around her; in one scene, it's even implied he did something to her while she was unconscious. Kevin works with his wife when it comes to claiming victims, having raped the Dahl twins, along with every other victim Anne ever had. Despite claiming to love Anne, though, he's transparently obsessive over other women, communicating directly with Holly and immediately going after Jordan despite Anne telling him not to. Kevin treats Jordan horrifically once the mask drops by toying with her by pretending to release her, attempting to make her play a game with him, and then brutalizing her when she refuses—while openly mocking her over her mother's rape and murder several years prior.

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