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**spoilers** Am I missing something in this scene? **spoilers**


I've watched "The House of the Devil" a couple times by this point, and I really like it. But there's this one spooky scene I was wondering about and I haven't seen anyone mention it.

It's where Sam's exploring the second floor of the house and walks into a room lined with windows, like a sunroom. As the camera pans out and away from her, more of the lit room is revealed and there are these streamers or ropes hanging from the ceiling. The camera zooms out more, showing us the whole house from outside. Honestly I feel it's one of the creepiest scenes in the film, and not just because of the music. Maybe because it shows how unknowingly helpless and vulnerable she is in the middle of nowhere.

But aside from how the soundtrack conveys that something f'd up is going here, is there also a visual cue that's going over my head? Is that actually the room where the ritual is performed on her and what's hanging from the ceiling are the restraints? And are we also supposed to put some focus on the first-story room on the left of the house? Between my crappy TV and my crappy eyesight, I can't make it out so well, but it looks like it's a bathroom and there's somebody in it, like sitting in a bathtub maybe...?

Any ideas with this scene?

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what's wrong with your face?

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