‘What Happened to Doris?’ Director Shares Son’s Chilling Claim: “He Eventually Got Her”

One of my favorite films to have its world premiere at this past September’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas, was What Happened to Doris?, which revisits the alleged haunting that inspired The Entity. That movie still has one of the scariest openings of all time.

The best way I can describe this new film is The Conjuring, but smaller and more intimate, with some really great scares and awesome visuals. I think James Wan would be proud.

Director Nick Simon (The Girl in the Photographs) recently spoke with The Horrored Girls about the disturbing story behind the film, the importance of telling it from Doris’s perspective, and a conversation with her son that makes the whole thing even more unsettling.

According to Simon, the family believed the entity didn’t stay behind when they left the house. It followed Doris for the rest of her life.

“The ghost followed her the rest of her life,” Simon says in the interview below. Recounting his conversation with her son, he adds, “He eventually got her.”

That’s the son’s belief, as relayed by Simon: that whatever had been tormenting his mother ultimately killed her. And that’s a pretty fucking chilling thought. Moving away is supposed to be your escape. In the family’s account, there wasn’t one.