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* The book ends with the suggestive hint that most of the records destroyed due to a bush-fire at Woodend that also took the Appleyard College building and just as the search party ends a scarp of the missing Teacher’s dress is found.

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* The book ends with the suggestive hint that most of the records destroyed due to a bush-fire at Woodend that also took the Appleyard College building and - just as the search party ends ends, a scarp scrap of the missing Teacher’s teacher’s dress is found.
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* The book ends with the fact that most of the records destroyed due to a bushfire as was the Appleyard College building and just as the search party ends a scarp of the missing Teacher’s dress is found.

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* The book ends with the fact suggestive hint that most of the records destroyed due to a bushfire as was bush-fire at Woodend that also took the Appleyard College building and just as the search party ends a scarp of the missing Teacher’s dress is found.

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** The original ending was just as intense. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hChZEMQXFg Mrs Appleyard climbs the rock and the ghost of Sara appears.]] Later Mrs Appleyard's body is recovered from the rock.

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** The film’s original ending was just as intense. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hChZEMQXFg Mrs Appleyard climbs the rock and the ghost of Sara appears.]] Later Mrs Appleyard's body is recovered from the rock.rock.
*** This is the Novel’s ending as well but the difference is Sara’s ghost is decayed.
* The book ends with the fact that most of the records destroyed due to a bushfire as was the Appleyard College building and just as the search party ends a scarp of the missing Teacher’s dress is found.
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* Mr Whitehead noticing [[DrivenToSuicide the hole in the glass roof of the greenhouse, and then finding Sara's body]].

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** Michael's ThousandYardStare as he's loaded into the doctor's carriage - he looks at Albert intensely and presses something into his hand. It's a tiny scrap of white lace.
** Albert scrambling back up the rock and finding Irma. Realising she's alive, he starts screaming for help.

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** Michael's ThousandYardStare as he's loaded into the doctor's carriage - he looks at Albert intensely and presses something into his hand. [[FantasyKeepsake It's a tiny scrap of white lace.
lace.]]
** Albert scrambling back up the rock and finding Irma. Realising she's alive, he starts screaming for help.Irma's body.



* Irma being mobbed by her classmates. They look like they're ready to eat her.

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* Irma being mobbed by her classmates. They look like they're ready to eat her.
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** Albert scrambling up the rock, finding Irma, and screaming for help.

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** Albert scrambling back up the rock, rock and finding Irma, and Irma. Realising she's alive, he starts screaming for help.

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** Albert scrambling up the rock, finding Irma, and screaming for help.



** Albert scrambling up the rock, finding Irma, and screaming for help.
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** Michael's ThousandYardStare as he's loaded into the doctor's carriage - he looks at Albert intensely and presses something into his hand. It's a tiny scrap of white lace.
** That whole sequence is one of the dramatic high points in a film that's [[NothingIsScarier mostly notable for its lack of horror]].
** Albert scrambling up the rock, finding Irma, and screaming for help.
* Irma being mobbed by her classmates. They look like they're ready to eat her.
* Mlle de Poitiers finding Sara strapped to the backboard.
** Everything about Sara's life is NightmareFuel, really.
* It was deleted in the ReCut, but the scene of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctRqIrzh0mA&feature=youtu.be&t=7m45s Mrs Appleyard going through Sara's things]] in order to cover up her suicide was extremely menacing.
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* When Albert finds Michael battered and catatonic on the rock, complete with ScareChord, after staying there all night looking for the missing girls.

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* When Albert finds Michael battered and catatonic on the rock, complete with ScareChord, after staying there all night looking for the missing girls.girls.
* Mrs Appleyard at the end of the film: Mr Whitehead rushes into her office to tell her Sara has committed suicide, and she's sitting at her desk in full mourning dress, with all her packed luggage around her. The expression on her face is like a death mask - Rachel Roberts was an incredible actress.
** The original ending was just as intense. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hChZEMQXFg Mrs Appleyard climbs the rock and the ghost of Sara appears.]] Later Mrs Appleyard's body is recovered from the rock.
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* The more time Miranda, Marion and Irma spend on the rock the more they seem to lose touch with reality. Finally the girls walk further into the rock as though they are drugged. Edith starts screaming and runs away. We never find out what happened.

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* The more time Miranda, Marion and Irma spend on the rock the more they seem to lose touch with reality. Finally the girls walk further into the rock as though they are drugged. Edith starts screaming and runs away. We never find out what happened.happened.
* When Albert finds Michael battered and catatonic on the rock, complete with ScareChord, after staying there all night looking for the missing girls.
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* There's something deeply unsettling about a mystery story where the mystery never gets explained.
* The more time Miranda, Marion and Irma spend on the rock the more they seem to lose touch with reality. Finally the girls walk further into the rock as though they are drugged. Edith starts screaming and runs away. We never find out what happened.

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