explain please!!!!

Yeah I wouldn't mind more of an explanation if anyone is willing to give one. I watched the whole thing and am definitely still confused.

If you haven’t seen the movie, I wouldn’t read much further unless you don’t mind knowing what’s going to happen next.

A gang of bank robbers decides to hide in an abandoned farm house. When they arrive, a strange creature charges at them but William’s brother, Sam, shoots and kills it. To answer another question I saw on this board, they don’t spend much time wondering what it is, since it is already dead and they are on the run with pounds of stolen gold.

The house is haunted because the family that used to live there was turned into hideous demon-type creatures after their father’s experimentation with magic and sacrifice goes wrong and opens a door to another reality, another dimension. In an attempt to close the door, the father sacrificed his slaves. When this failed to work, he killed his infected wife and children and was hung up on the scarecrow post for doing so.

The events that occurred repeat themselves within the house and on the surrounding land. If you pay close attention throughout the film, there are a few clues to this cyclical storyline. When William is searching for Sam upstairs (after Sam became possessed and screamed at Annabelle), he kicks open the doors to each room, guns drawn, but finds nothing. He then turns and heads down the stairs. When he turns, his reflection in the window is deformed and ugly, almost exactly like the creature they shot in the corn field. Another example is the way that Clyde dies. He is hung up on the scarecrow post, just like the father was. He is also stuffed with straw and then sewn shut at every opening, which I thought was a terrifyingly nice touch. The last clue (which should have been obvious to anyone who was paying attention when they watched the film) is when William is being chased out of the corn field by Dog the night after the storm. He emerges and is shot by soldiers. The soldiers did not see William, a fellow human, running towards them for help, they saw a strange creature charging at them. William has become one of the demons.

Alex Turner (who was a first-time director on this film) wasn’t able to completely pull off the allegory of the film’s title. He wanted people to compare the band of robbers to the multitude of dead birds they came upon when they first arrive at the house. However, due to time and budget constraints, this shot was not able to be in the film, so Turner had to settle for a single tight shot on one dead bird.