So the jist of this movie is that the grandmother, who passess away at the beginning, was some sort of grand witch who's life work was to summon a demon. Everything we see in the film is a consequence of the attempts she has already made to do this, or the ongoing attempts of her followers to complete the task. The demon needs to possess a human, and it is explained in the film that it prefers males. By the end of the movie it has almost certainly fully inhabited Peter, with the rest of his family now dead.This is the part I wanna talk about. We know from various hints etc. that the grandmother originally was fixated on the grand-daughter, Charlie. Charlie also says she felt grandmother wanted her to be a boy. We see strange words etched on Charlie's bedroom wall, which are later repeated by a cultist while they are trying to expell Peter from his own body. Charlie seems to flick between acting quite worryingly (obsession with beheading animals), and being clearly quite an innocent child. Her characteristic mouth-click becomes a motif in the film, and is finally repeated by Peter as his first action after we can assume the demon has taken full control, indicating this is maybe a behaviour of the demon rather than her. The sound certainly seems to follow people around menacingly after she dies - with ill intent rather than the friendliness we saw Charlie was capable of.My question is, are we meant to assume that Charlie had been semi-possessed by the demon but that the cultists had never managed to make it work 100% with her? The etching on her wall evidence of a long term battle they fought to try and fully expell Charlie from her own body? Of course Charlie dies from the actions of the cultists; is that their moment if decision to stop trying and switch efforts to Peter, and killing Charlie is necessary to free to demon from her and start from scratch? My original takeaway had been that Charlie had been a complete failure for them, that her death was part of a series of beheadings that were required as some kind of payment. But the more I think about it the more there seem to be signs that Charlie had actually been partially possessed throughout.This is such a great film. via /r/movies https://ift.tt/3os7R94
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