Girl on the Third Floors Ending Explained Who The Girl Really Is

Girl on the Third Floor’s Ending Explained: Who The Girl Really Is

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A house renovation becomes a nightmare in chilling ghost story Girl on the Third Floor – but what does the movie’s ending mean?

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Girl on the Third Floors Ending Explained Who The Girl Really Is

A home renovation becomes a nightmare in Travis Stephens’ 2019 horror movie Girl on the Third Floor, and just when you think the story might have a happy ending, it throws in a chilling final twist. Philip “CM Punk” Brooks stars as Don Koch, a married man with his first child on the way, who is fixing up a house in the Chicago suburbs to make it fit for a family. Unfortunately, both the house and Don himself are harboring darkness inside.

After an illicit one-night stand with a mysterious local girl called Sarah (Sarah Brooks), Don starts to experience escalating supernatural occurrences inside the house, from nasty fluids pouring out of the walls to his pet dog meeting a horrible end in the clothes dryer. It’s revealed that the family home Don is trying to renovate used to be a bordello that catered to grotesque and violent fantasies, and that both Sarah and a girl with a mangled face called Sadie (Elissa Dowling) are the ghosts of sex workers who died inside the walls of the house.

Eventually Don himself falls victim to the house’s violence, and that’s when his pregnant wife Liz (Trieste Kelly Dunn) arrives in town to surprise him. She finds the house empty, and begins to grow concerned. Ellie (Karen Woditsch), a pastor at a neighboring church, warns her that the house has a tendency to test the families that move into it, and that men are often found wanting. Returning to the house, Liz is given a disturbing glimpse into its past bordello days, and then faces a final showdown with Sarah and Sadie.

Who is The Girl on the Third Floor?

Girl on the Third Floors Ending Explained Who The Girl Really Is

Sadie was one of the girls who worked at the bordello, and lived in a tiny room on the third floor of the house – where men would gather around a balcony to watch the performance below. She had a childlike mind, as evidenced by her drawings on the walls of her room, which depict the various sex acts that she witnessed in the bordello and portray the man with the bird mask as a benevolent figure taking care of her. When Liz experiences the flashback to Sarah and Sadie’s life in the bordello, she sees Sadie crouched in her room and being given her marbles as a gift by the man in the bird mask. Though she’s shrouded in shadow, it’s clear that Sadie didn’t always have the facial deformities we see her with as a ghost.

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Sarah sheds more light on Sadie’s death. She tells Liz, “he played with her for months and then killed her, dumping her body at the train tracks.” This explains Sadie’s appearance as a ghost: wrapped in what looks like a tattered sheet and tied up with rope, with her face mutilated beyond recognition. When Liz is confronted by Sadie again downstairs, she uses a mallet to smash her head until it splits apart – in a grim reenactment of how Sadie died the first time around.

Sarah’s Real Identity and Death

Girl on the Third Floors Ending Explained Who The Girl Really Is

Sarah was another sex worker at the bordello, though she implies that she was one of the “not so innocent” ones. After spilling the details of Sadie’s death she tells Liz, “when he killed me, my body never left the house.” The “he” in question is identified in a newspaper article that Liz finds earlier in the movie: Theodore Geoghegan, the owner of the bordello. That article also reveals that Sarah was an English immigrant who travelled from Boston in 1901, and took a job at the bordello when she was unable to find any other work. She became a star at the bordello, working there for eight years before she was killed and stashed inside the walls. Just as Liz unwittingly reenacts Sadie’s death, Don killing Sarah and walling her body up in the basement reflects her original death as well.

In her afterlife, Sarah’s role in the house is to test the families who come to live there. For the men, the test is simple: if they can prove that they are different from the men who used to come to the bordello, by resisting Sarah’s seduction and not hurting her, then they pass. This is a test that Don thoroughly fails – first when he sleeps with Sarah, and then again when he apologizes (which might have been his only shot at redemption), but only as a trick to lure her into the kitchen and kill her. While Don may have failed his test, however, Liz manages to pass hers.

Why Liz Decides To Stay in the House

Girl on the Third Floors Ending Explained Who The Girl Really Is

Perhaps the most baffling aspect of Girl on the Third Floor’s ending is Liz’s decision to go ahead and move into the murder brothel haunted by violent ghosts, and to raise her baby there. While her actions may seem to defy logic, they do fit with what Ellie says about the house: that families who pass the test can live there happily for years with no disturbances. The specific moment when Liz passes the test is when Sarah (posing as Don) begs her to forgive him for cheating on her again. Had Liz buckled and decided to take him back, she would have demonstrated her own brand of weakness to match Don’s. Instead, she finds the strength to shut him down. When Sarah rips Don’s skin away and reveals herself she says, “I’m proud of you, Liz. Thought you weren’t going to make it there at the end” – confirming that this was indeed Liz’s final test.

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After killing Sadie (as much as a ghost can be killed) and exhuming Sarah’s body from inside the wall of the house, Liz theoretically has no reason to fear living there any more. Running away from the house could even be interpreted as her backing down from a position of strength, whereas staying there with her baby is a gesture of her power. Of course, the final scene in Girl on the Third Floor’s ending proves that this gesture was a bad idea.

Don’s Return in Girl on the Third Floor’s Ending

After Liz leaves the baby in the nursery, the infant becomes fascinated with the vent above its crib. Suddenly, Sadie’s green marbles start dropping through the vent and landing next to the baby. That alone is frightening enough, given the obvious choking hazard. Then Don’s face appears behind the vent and with a triumphant smile he says, “That’s my girl” – before reaching through the vent for a final scare.

Throughout Girl on the Third Floor, the marbles have been more than just evidence of a haunting: they’re a symbol of the house’s corruption. Cooper the dog swallows a marble, which foreshadows his horrible death at Sarah’s hands. Don dies when the marbles get under his skin and he attempts to cut them out. And in the flashback to the bordello’s past we see the origin of the marbles – a perverted gift from the man who would go on to brutally murder Sadie. It’s significant that, after passing her test, Liz slips on the marbles but doesn’t fall.

By dropping the marbles through the vent, it seems clear that Don wants to corrupt his baby daughter in the same way that he was corrupted, perhaps even by killing her so that she can join him as a ghost in the house. Ultimately, Girl on the Third Floor’s final shot is just another creepy twist in a very twisted tale.

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