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Submitted by Evan B

Pooper:
Joan is an alias. Joan is really Kat (who escaped from a mental hospital) nine years after Kat killed Rose. Kat/Joan kills Rose’s parents in an effort to appease the demons (but it doesn’t appear to work).

Long Ending:
The film opens on an all-girl Catholic boarding school in a town named Bramford. A school break approaches and everyone returns home except for Kat (Kiernan Shipka), an unpopular freshman who has become increasingly disconnected from reality, and Rose (Lucy Boynton), who “accidentally” told her parents the wrong pick-up date. Kat has had a premonition that her parents died in a car crash on the way to pick her up. We learn that Rose told her parents the wrong date as she believes she is pregnant and wanted to tell her boyfriend of their predicament. The pair remain on campus with two nuns until their parents arrive.

We cut to a young woman named Joan (Emma Roberts) who has escaped from a mental facility. She waits at a bus station with a stolen ID. She has no money. Joan is approached by an old man named Bill (James Remar) who offers to give her a free ride. He and his wife are traveling to Bramford. Joan reluctantly agrees.

Back at Bramford, Rose returns from her rendezvous with her boyfriend. She hears voices through the pipes and tracks them to the boiler room. There, she finds Kat praying and praising the fires in the furnace. Rose brings Kat to her room, where Kat claims to have been sleepwalking. The next day, however, Kat is incredibly aggressive to the nuns, refuses to pray to god, and calls Rose and the nuns filthy names. It is intimated that Kat’s parents have indeed been killed in a car crash.

We then watch flashbacks of events from Kat’s point of view. A few weeks before the break, Kat begins seeing and talking to demonic figures (who give her visions of her parent’s deaths). When Kat is not picked up by her parents, she feels abandoned and submits to the demons. The demons eventually instruct her to kill the nuns and Rose.

Jumping forward Kat brutally stabbs the three women to death. She decapitates their corpses and brings the severed heads to the boiler rooms where she begins praising Satan. A police deputy eventually finds Kat there and shoots her. Kat survives and, in a hospital, is subjected to an exorcism that chases the demons away. Kat weeps at the loss of the demons (as she views them as her only friends/family with the death of her parents).

We jump to Joan and learn she has bullet wounds in her shoulder. We also discover that Bill and his wife are the parents of Rose… who was killed by Kat nine years earlier (it was not revealed until this moment that the stories were taking place at different points in time). Bill and his wife are traveling to Bramford to visit Rose’s grave. Joan convinces the pair to pull over once they arrive in Bramford (falsely claiming to be sick) and murders Bill and his wife with a knife she stole from a diner. She then decapitates them and begins walking to the school.

It is revealed that “Joan” is really an alias for Kat, having escaped the mental hospital she had been confined to the last nine years. Kat takes the severed heads to the Catholic school’s boiler room and offers them to the demons that used to reside there….

The film ends with Joan/Kat walking away from the school empty-handed and alone. It appears her sacrifices to the demons were unable to overcome the exorcism, and Joan/Kat is still alone. The film ends with Joan/Kat weeping inconsolably.