The House At The End Of Time’s Twisty Ending Explained

Even by the standards of most time travel stories, the ending of The House At The End Of Time is a little complex – here’s how it works. Time travel is a very popular trope in sci-fi fiction, with notable examples including H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine and Ray Bradbury’s A Sound Of Thunder. In cinema, Back To The Future is probably the most popular franchise to explore the concept. The trilogy involves teenager Marty McFly traveling both backward and forwards in time, thanks to a time machine created by his scientist friend Doc Brown. Naturally, this creates all sorts of time paradoxes Marty and Doc need to fix.

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The Terminator series also deals heavily with this concept, with every entry bar Terminator: Salvation involving time travel. The 2012 action thriller Looper featured Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s assassin having to track down and kill his older self, played by Bruce Willis. The MCU also dived into time travel with Avengers: Endgame, with the heroes having to travel back to the past.

The House At The End Of Time may lack the budget of the MCU, but it more than makes up for that with an emotional story. This 2013 Spanish language thriller involves a woman named Dulce who experiences a haunting in her home, which ends with the murder of her husband and the disappearance of her son Leopoldo. Dulce is convinced for the murder and she’s released decades later and resolves to uncover the mystery of that night. The movie later received a South Korean remake in the form of House Of The Disappeared, starring Yunjin Kim (Lost).

In the past timeline of The House At The End Of Time, Dulce’s youngest son Rodrigo is killed accidentally by his brother Leopoldo while playing sports. Leopoldo had previously handed Dulce a note – which he claimed was given to him by a ghost – warning her not to let the children play for a few days; her husband Juan José ignored this and Rodrigo is killed. Her husband later tries to kill Leopoldo after becoming convinced the boy isn’t his son. This leads to Dulce killing Juan José and Leopoldo being snatched by a mysterious presence.

In the present timeline of The House At The End Of Time, Dulce comes to realize, with the aid of a priest, that at a certain point the house can transport people in time. It turns out the supernatural force from in the past was an older Dulce, and she was the one who wrote the note warning the children not to play. She also encounters an elderly version of Leopoldo from way into the future, who reveals the truth. Leopoldo had a disease that couldn’t be cured in the original timeline, so the older Dulce was the one who kidnapped him on the night of the murder. While doing this caused young Dulce to go to prison, it saved her son’s life.

After she takes young Leopoldo from the past, the priest reveals himself to be Leopoldo’s boyhood best friend, all grown up. The priest than give Leopoldo to a woman for adoption, who is the grown-up version of his late brother Rodrigo’s crush. The House At The End Of Time’s plotting is a little messy, but it’s a creative and emotional genre movie with great central performances. There was talk of New Line (IT: Chapter 2) producing an English language remake in 2016, but little has been heard of that project since.

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