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The first shot of the movie shows the outside of the house with a construction company's truck and a cement mixer in the driveway. That suggests that the owners were renovating the basement, maybe putting in a cement floor to replace the dirt floor we see in the opening scene.
I think the writers want us to believe, as Tommy does, that she started as an innocent girl, and that the torture turned her into an evil undead witch.
I don’t find that entirely satisfactory, for a couple of reasons:
Tommy starts by disbelieving in witches. He says that, since there are no actual witches, the Salem prosecutors only tried and punished innocent women. Later, as he accepts that her body seems to have supernatural powers, he starts to speculate that the punishments somehow made her into a witch. So now he does believe in witches. But in that case, why wouldn’t he accept the simpler explanation he had rejected at first, that she was a witch all along?
The other problem with the innocent-becomes-witch theory, as blatherskitenoir mentions above, is that we are left with the uncomfortable idea of an innocent victim becoming evil through her suffering. (This is, though, a common trope in horror b-movies: a science experiment goes wrong, the scientist turns into a monster and goes on a rampage.)
The impression I get is that the writers started with a very simple pitch - dead girl turns up at isolated morgue but she’s not really dead - and then just freestyled the backstory as needed to keep the suspense and jump scares flowing.
As a suspected witch she would have been buried in an unmarked grave. Many years later someone bought the land and built a house on it without knowing she was there. Then the latest owners uncovered her when they were excavating in their basement.
You neglect to mention that this “careful analysis” comes from the Heartland Institute, an utterly unreliable and discredited source of right wing misinformation, “known for denying the scientific consensus on climate change and the negative health impacts of smoking” (Wikipedia).
Trump in a garbage truck taking his supporters to the trash heap is the perfect metaphor for his campaign.
Sean Bean's character should have explained that his plan involved positioning snipers above the road, so that they were shooting down, not at each other. Sam was thinking in 2D.
“one quote that anyone made that was anything resembling Nazi rhetoric?”
Stephen Miller: “America is for Americans and Americans only”
Nazi slogan: “Germany for the Germans – foreigners out”
https://forward.com/opinion/668440/miller-trump-madison-square-garden-immigrants/
Germany understands: https://www.facebook.com/stern/photos/a.113788409651/10155225817744652/?type=3&ref=embed_post
Déjà vu: https://anightatthegarden.com
Who cares if they accept it? What are they going to do? Dress up in their XXL Walmart combat fatigues, waddle up to the Capitol and try another insurrection? They’ll end up in the same government funded accommodation as the Jan 6 criminals.
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