So, does Arnold and Roz Allardyce (the brother and sister)...
...grow younger when "Mother" is whole again? The spirit of Mother is directly linked to the house, so as the family endures emotional and/or physical pain, she grows stronger and the house repairs itself. Ultimately, Mother is strong enough to take total possession of the victim, living again in a restored and beautiful house.
Now, the brother and sister return at the end and marvel at how beautiful everything is now. Oddly, they are not shown at all. We only hear them speaking. Are they rejuvenated as well? I mean, there would be no way to make the actors younger unless they recast them, so instead we only hear them. It is interesting as well that they leave and are not present at all while the new family resides in the house, possibly so as not to have to explain their rejuvenation. Also, remember the Allardyce graveyard? No one had been buried there since 1890, if I recall correctly.
Do you think that Arnold and Roz grow younger each time the House is restored? The way Burgess Meredith plays Arnold, I nearly feel like he is irritated at being old and in a wheelchair, and ready to get back on his feet again! Being long lived would also make them both more eccentric.
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