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Blowing job?

posted 10 years ago by digitalartbyhannah
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This movie is pretty straight forward to me. It has some bluffs but the ending makes it very clear that she was in fact possessed, the possession likely summoned by the satanic cult hiding under the guise of church.

So my question is, if she was possessed, which there's very little doubt that she was, why did she say blowing job? Was the demon trying to get rid of Cotton by saying it incorrectly to make him believe she was just a traumatized girl, or was she actually just traumatized at this point? Maybe both?

I don't think there's a definitive answer by I'd love to hear theories.

[–] essex9999 10 years ago

I think your first speculation makes the most sense. The demon deliberately used the wrong word to set up the idea that Nell was just a guilt-ridden pregnant girl and get Cotton and his crew out of the way. The same applies to her telling the story of how she got pregnant in the third person. It's all a set-up to convince Cotton and Louis that Nell's problems are psychiatric and not demonic.

[–] bing-57 9 years ago

> I think your first speculation makes the most sense. The demon deliberately used the wrong word to set up the idea that Nell was just a guilt-ridden pregnant girl and get Cotton and his crew out of the way.

No. That would be a long shot strategy. There's no reason to expect that the preacher would comment on using the wrong word or jump to the conclusion that the girl was just putting on an act. I mean, he just witnessed her break her own neck! Also, the demon called itself "Abalan" and there was no way that the girl could have known which name the preacher had pulled at random from the Big Book of Demons.

In fact, it's an amazing coincidence that he picked the right name.

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[–] GoodRed 8 years ago

Couple of things:

-The neck thing wasn't THAT weird. In fact that was a non-existent "effect" done by the actress, who is exceptionally flexible and double-jointed. It wasn't like she went full on Regan McNeil.

-Cotton could have figured Nell may have overheard him talking about Abalam, or that she had heard it from her brother, who we know by the end is heavily into demons.

-The demon's name is coincidental, but not as much as I thought initially, since he's identified from the start as being the "defiler of the innocent" (or whatever), which fit the case and why Nell was chosen.

I agree with the other poster that the demon was intentionally trying to lead Cotton astray.

[–] samgiannn 10 years ago

I remember Cotton saying that it was the wrong name and that it must have been Nell since she's so innocent. I interpreted it the same as digitalartbyhannah. I figured the demon did a lot of the stuff it did to throw Cotton off.