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Kids are deff possessed.

posted 12 years ago by christinam-sorrentino
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SpOiLeRs.
Initially, I disregarded the hints of demonic presence, and thought that the twins were sociopaths.
Upon a second viewing, I feel it's hard to deny that the children are possessed. In the beginning, when the mother is looking for the ball, she says "i just saw a jackal". The jackal is symbolically tied to both the dead, and the devil. Their dog randomly whimpers outside the children's room while the camera is approaching. The parents check in on the twins sleeping, and within a second, they are suddenly up and standing at attention. The girl made the curtain rise without touching it. The twins disrupt their father's prayer, and the twins attack a boy with the name of Christian.
There are more instances as well. I actually wanted it to be that the children were sociopaths, because I'd find that idea more creepy/cool. I also agree with other theories that this demon has entered the camera. The children aren't possessed by the house... They moved to this new house trying to change the way the kids already were.

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[–] hardfugoo 12 years ago

It seems like the the direction they wanted to take but bailed halfway thru. Kinda like how they were setting it up to make it seem like the father was abusing them and that's why the kids were acting nuts. Like the whole biting scene... why is the father even in bed with him? Then the man in the closet? They just didn't know what they actually wanted to do in the movie.

[–] Reallusion1 11 years ago

Yeah the crucified cat pretty much cemented them as being truly evil.

[–] ehaas-3 10 years ago

They were evil, but the cause of their evil was never explained which made it all the more frightening. The last thing the movie needed was obvious supernaturalism. The effectiveness of the story despite its flaws was the message that there are some things that might be genuinely unexplainable. Not through past trauma, illness, the Devil or anything else that we can conceptualize.

[–] TheBeardedWonder 8 years ago

Literally everything you said is ambiguous though, and nothing proves possession, that was the point. They killed a cat - so do lots of serial killers not connected to possession. The standing up real quick isn't indicative of anything concrete, neither is the shade on the window happening to go up right then. The whole point of things like that happening is that you're never really sure. The writing of things like that happening was on purpose. The movie isn't great by any means, but I would concede the fact that everything being ambiguous was on purpose so you can't say one way or the other.

[–] PreachCaleb 8 years ago

Agreed. There's nothing to indicate it's a definitive possession.

You are sin.

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