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posted 13 years ago by amandapanda_1987
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It didnt say, but was the kids behaviour, because of the house, or was it just the way the kids were...
it didnt really say
Cos they thought the exorcism worked, but turned out they were faking it (damn well too, i was like OMG they are talking and Smiling!!!)

Also with the secret language thing, alot of twins actually do have secret languages, so the parents shouldnt have got pissed off about that.
like if they thought their kids were pretty normal (at that stage they did) then im sure any secrets they had were nothing to stress about.

Also why didnt the parents freak out when they kdis dissappeared and appreared in a split second, even though a door was closed or something. if that was me id be like WTF, and freak out about that- at least, be startled and be like HOW did you do that?????

Also with the dinner/lunch scene, after they threw their cups, i would have been like "fine" and not let them have any food, for being brats

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[–] gregorik 13 years ago

Either the house was haunted or the demon followed the twins from their old place to this one. My take is that the twins were problem children to begin with, and the resident demon built on that. There were subtle signs indicating that the demonic possession is real, and the twins were targeted as a unit. The fairy tale with the disguised two-headed dragon is an early clue. The film could use more 'demonic' special effects apart from sudden disappearances and shades going up on their won, but the director apparently wanted to keep us in the dark.

I think the exorcism failed to work because the pastor has a weak faith -- as implied by his botched and self-deprecating rehearsal for the Christmas sermon, his foul mouth and his often childish behavior. Frankly, he never struck me as a good pastor. Even the wife goes, "You're supposed to be a pastor, you know."

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[–] mjr3090 13 years ago

I've seen this question (or some variation of it) in several threads, asking if it was the house or were the kids always that way. I don't know if anybody's mentioned this (my net's slow so I don't have the patience to go all through the threads :P) but when the mom comes in and says she's going to take the kids to her mother's, dad says "Our kids are not normal. You know we can't move out to the middle of nowhere and raise them in this Norman Rockwell world and expect everything to ... Nothing's changed. It didn't work."

The last part("Nothing's changed. It didn't work.")says to me that the kids were like this (or moving in this direction) long before they moved...and that their moving here was an effort to make things better.

"It didn't work" is one hell of an understatement. :P

Plot holes and all, I still liked it. Last shot of the film ("dinner" with mom and dad) was one of the creepiest shots I've ever seen in a film.(And, to top it all off, it was filmed in the town I used to live in!)

[–] Finkle-is-Einhorn 13 years ago

the film never explains if t is demon posession or a mental disorder, th exorcism is done around the same time the mum mentions putting the kids on a new drug,

so either could be the eason for why the kids seemed to be ok for 2months.

theparents also entiont hey moved to this new house because of the childrens wierd behaviour at there previous home