The Banishing-- Movie ending spoilers!

 PLOT SUMMARY: A family moves into a new home unaware that it is haunted. As the husband begins to lose his mind, it is up to the wife to solve the mystery of the house before it is too late. 

The Borley Rectory was known as the most haunted house in the world...in the 1930s.

Years passed, investigators were sent in and people were re-interviewed, and then the Borley Rectory became the most-lied about house in the world. Turns out, no one actually saw a ghost and the people who claimed they did said it was all a prank.

But that didn't stop filmmakers from digging up old stories and releasing a movie every three years or so.

Here's another one: The Banishing.

THE BANISHING Movie Plot

The movie is based on real-life people who lived in the house: Marianne, Linus and their daughter Adelaide. Linus is a reverend who basically considers everything a sin, including sleeping with his wife. Marianne keeps reminding him that they are married but it seems that Linus married her only because he was charitable.

Marianne had a child out of wedlock, was declared mentally unfit when the child died inside her and while she was receiving treatment, she had met Linus who took pity on her and married her. Adelaide is supposed to be adopted.

The movie wastes no time in getting to the point in the first half. It is the second half when the point of the story gets confusing and there are so many plots thrown in that the climax will leave you disoriented.

What just happened, will be a question that will come to your mind.

When the movie begins, the former tenant comes into his bedroom and sees himself murdering his wife. The next second the room is empty.

In the very next scene, he has taken his own life and the Bishop comes in and doesn't react in too much shock.

Then there's some weird dancing before some time pass and Linus and Marianna come to stay at the Rectory with their daughter Adelaide.

The first thing Adelaide does is go into her bedroom and find a creepy doll without eyes.

Like I said, the movie doesn't waste any time getting to the usual haunted house tropes.

By the time the house is being set and dinner is served, Adelaide has not only begun playing with her doll but also set up a creepy scene where three rolled up sacks that are supposed to be dolls, are arranged around the blind doll.

While Linus is praying before consuming his dinner, Adelaide can't wait to eat and picks up her fork twice before setting it down as Linus goes on and on.

Then afterwards Linus complains that Adelaide is very rude for eating before grace is offered. She apologizes then returns to her room to play with her creepy dolls.

Marianne doesn't want to comment on her strange game because she's more interested in getting to her room with her husband.

Unfortunately for her, Linus isn't interested in being with her and leaves promptly.

Another character Harry Price, based on real life paranormal expert, comes in to warn Linus of the Rectory and of its weird effect on the women who stay there who turn wanton.

Linus throws him out but the seeds of doubt have been planted. Just because his wife wants to get intimate with him, he decides that Marianne is ready to be with anyone.

So when Marianne and Adelaide go see a movie in the theatre and also see a newsreel on the Nazis, Linus sees her coming out later and talking to the driver and touching his arm.

Marianne was simply thinking about what she can donate to the army but Linus is ready to believe the worst about his wife because of what a stranger told him.

Things around the house get weirder as time passes with Adelaide becoming distant and calling someone else her mother, Marianne seeing something off about her reflection in the mirror, and then finding herself one night cradling the housekeeper's dead body.

Linus thinks she's losing her mind.

THE BANISHING Ending Explained with Spoilers!

Harry Price gets beaten up by the Bishop's men who wishes Harry would just stay away from the house.

Marianne goes to meet him and learns about the house's history. Turns out the house was built atop a monastery and supposedly, three monks had tortured a nun after she became pregnant with their child.

Marianne is aghast and tries to tell Linus about it but before that the Bishop comes for a visit, informs her he knows of her secret and why he chose this family to stay here.

The house starts playing tricks on Linus' mind and he sees Marianne performing adultery. He loses it and roams around the dark basement. Marianne's game of 'What time is it wolf' has gone horribly wrong because Adelaide has disappeared.

Everyone roams around the dark cellar and somewhere along the way, Linus has killed the housekeeper.

Marianne is confronted by her past and as per Harry's advice, she must own up to her shame.

Marianne is surrounded by a hooded figure who derides her for her shameful act but Marianne takes the power away from him by saying she doesn't regret being with Adelaide's father even though she wasn't married when she had her.

Marianne is freed and she finds Adelaide with the ghost of the blind woman who is looking for her baby and for some reason thought Adelaide was it.

Their bones are found and Linus, Harry, Marianne and Adelaide give the bones a proper burial so that the souls of the nun and her baby may find peace.

And that for some reason isn't the end.

The Bishop unearths the bones and takes them to the Nazi headquarters because the Nazis were into black magic according to rumors and required the bones of a nun from the most haunted house in the world to perform a ritual and gain the upper hand in the war.

Clearly the last scene sticks out like a sore thumb as there is no explanation as to why the Bishop wanted to help the Nazis.

That was the end of the movie that had a decent first half, a convoluting second half and a ludicrous final scene.

Scare scale: 2/5