yes, I agree that scene had me laughing and the use of cgi was a tad blatant

I loved the ending, mainly because it raises questions. Was the serial killer / Eli's caretaker previously romantically involved with her? If so, is this Oskar's fate?

What's the advantage for Oskar for not turning? If he's going not to live with his (gay?) father, how is he going to live by himself? He's a child after all. Or are they simply running away without any plan?

I personally would've ended the movie with the last shot of snowfall after the pool sequence, leaving it ambiguous. But the train shot probably raises more questions, so I ended up liking that ending more.

I brought this up earlier. I do think that the elderly man was originally in the same position as Oskar. I don't think she's planning to turn Oskar, because he wouldn't be any more effective than she is, also being a 12 year old. Maybe she will when he's an adult, but somehow I doubt it.

I don't think they're running away to the father's. The last scene with him made it clear that Oskar is not comfortable with his dad's gay relationship. I think they're going to set up in some other town and do something similar to what she had going with the older guy.

Personally, I love the ending on the train, because it really does bring up a load of questions that most other endings wouldn't.

What Oskar taps in Morse Code to Eli inside of the box on the train? Also what Eli taps back?

I've read that it was the Swedish word "puss" which roughly translates to "kiss."

the "vagina" scene

At the time I saw it, my assumption was that maybe she'd been embalmed and "sewn up" top prevent leakage (odd that 'Buffy' vamps never had to deal with embalming issues, huh?). Of course, she DID tell Oskar that she wasn't dead (but she also told him that she wasn't a girl, and I assumed she wasn't speaking literally; she's not a girl but she is female - she's not dead because she's moving around).

My friends and I did discuss if Eli's father was really just another person Eli befriended; but what about the rings inside the egg? There was a lengthy debate which half of us argued that it was just items Eli stole when she killed people or if it was rings of her previous "lovers." During that scene Oskar asks Eli how she got the money and she responds back with, "They gave it to me."

was not a previous lover that got old/too old to do his job anymore (or maybe his heart wasn't in it and he was subliminally sabotaging himself?). I thought that, too. But in the book, according to those that read it, "he's a pedophile teacher that gets outed some years before the events in the book/film and Eli finds him when he is down and out, and makes him a servant of sorts with an implied and never fulfilled promise of a sexual relationship. He does what he does because he loves Eli and sometimes get to sleep next to him/her and hopes to one day realize his love to him/her. Eli it seems has no intent of ever letting that happen but kind of strings him along to get what she/he needs: Someone who can act as an adult caretaker as to not raise suspicion and to help get blood so Eli doesn't risk getting outed." (source, AICN talkbacker, Supernaut242)

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38870

Eli is actually a boy. What you are looking at is his scar/stitches of where his genitalia used to be. I didn't pick up on that either when I watched it. Eli mentions a couple of times that he is not a girl, I just assumed she meant in the Anne Rice sense where vampires are sexless once turned. But again, it's all explained in better detail, with back story, in the novel (supposedly, as I have not read it). Source, same AICN article, director's interview answers.

Eli is a BOY!?

Succumbed to Cats? Melted the patient?