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Boiling it down to a timeline SPOILERS


I've read the threads attempting to explain this steaming pile of plot and I feel I need a victims timeline for additional clarity:

1918:
-spanish flu pandemic wipes out hoards of people
-preacher gets his daughters inoculated against flu
-preacher and two daughters show up in mountains where mountain-folk practice faith based shenanigans
-preacher tells hill people to trust God instead of getting inoculated
-hill people die
-hill people find out about preacher's daughters being safe
-hill people kill preacher's daughters
-granny puts curse on preacher by sucking out his soul and turning him into an empty shelter, doomed to roam the earth sucking out the souls of those who have lost their faith
-preacher never ages, has no self identity

1982:
-paralyzed David loses faith in God and turns to science for a cure for his paralysis
?How did David come in contact with the preacher? Was this answered?
-preacher sucks the soul out of david
-david is found with symbol etched on his back

?unknown year?:
-Wesley Crite, a miserable musician, finds the preacher in the back seat of his car one day
?Why? How did the preacher find Wes?
-preacher sucks out Wesley's soul

?unknown year?:
-Adam Saber lives in a crappy apartment.
?How did the preacher encounter Adam?
-preacher sucks out Adam's soul and leaves him in the bathtub with the symbol etched on his back

2009:
-Dr Cara's father gets the preacher as a psych case
-Dr Cara's father's colleague Dr Charles examines the preacher
-Dr Charles starts coughing up dirt and gets a back etching because he's lost his faith somehow
?when was his loss of faith explained?
-Dr Cara meets the preacher as Adam/David
-the preacher sucks out Dr Charles' soul
-Dr Cara's father starts coughing
-the preacher meets Dr Cara's daughter at soccer practice
-Dr Cara's daughter starts coughing
-then Dr Cara gets a history lessons from some dude who knows mountain-folk lore. she finds out the Adam/Wes/David is actually the preacher when she sees a movie of him.

-the preacher sucks out Dr Cara's father's soul while Dr Cara is trying to warn him
-Dr Cara's daughter is getting sicker
-Dr Cara's brother brings the daughter to the mountain granny who says there's nothing can be done
-the preacher sucks out Dr Cara's daughter's soul
-Dr Cara kills the preacher
-souls trapped since 1918 are released
-the daughter reanimates, possibly with the soul of David and possibly with the souls of others

Here's what I want to know:

?If the preacher has been cursed since 1918 and all his soul-sucked victims have the back etching, why wouldn't this have become a well known phenomenon when all those bodies were discovered?

?Wouldn't there have to have been hundreds of people found dead with no eyes and back etchings?

?Where was he living and on what income for all those years?

?If he assumed the lives of the people he sucked the souls out of, wouldn't their families have said something about it?

?Or wouldn't he at least have been locked up in an institution?

?And if he was locked up for years wouldn't someone have noticed he wasn't aging?

?And how did he find/select his victims?

?And what caused the back etching to break out on a victim? Was it when he physically touched his victims?

Help me understand. Please.


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Wesley Crite was in 1994. The movie never answered any of those questions.

For 60+ years, the preacher didn't do anything, but then he takes David in 1982, then Wesley 12 years later, then 17 years later, he takes Adam and Charles and the dad and Samantha.

It doesn't make any sense why it would get all vengeful after all that time, and all those people in such a short amount of time.

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You'd also think that someone would have killed the preacher too. So the vessel or whatever would've changed long before the daughter became the new one. To answer one of your many great questions (based on my opinion) I don't think the preacher needed anything to live. Like he didn't need an income.

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The movie didn´t do a good job in this. It´s like a part of it is missing. The only logical explanation would be (for me at least) that preacher was locked away somewhere for quite some time. It doesn´t make any sense that the mountain folks would have left him wondering without a soul, does it. They should have added somehow that he was buried or locked away or some other way stopped from going around sucking people´s souls. And then somehow was let loose by mistake. I don´t know. Bothers me too and I don´t like it! I enjoyed the movie but am annoyed by things like these. Somebody messed up either with the script or the editing of the movie.

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I also didn't understand why he only had a few of those souls instead of thousands considering it all happened in 1918. Also, it made me think that the granny was the real evil in the movie because she released this fiend that murders non believers instead of just torturing and killing the preacher and also wouldn't help them at the end.

I thought all of it was a plothole until I figured it out!! I'll tell you what happened!!

The granny takes away the preacher soul in 1918 and makes his body a souless shelter or whatever. The preacher is not collecting souls at this point

1982:
-paralyzed David loses faith in God and turns to science for a cure for his paralysis
?How did David come in contact with the preacher? Was this answered?

It is said on the newspapers nad by David's mother that he was mutilated on some sort of satanic ritual!!

This is where someone (not explained) release the preacher as a soul collecting fiend with David's soul, with this satanic ritual.

That's the explanation!! However:

-It is not explained how the preacher's body didn't rot away after 70 years if nobody was on it (the preacher soul couldn't return to it because of the mud), or better yet, where was it exactly?

-It also doesn't explain why he was using his body instead of David's body. David's body would had made more sense for the preacher to take (considering he "supposedly" couldnt get into his own body)

-You know what? It still feels like a plothole because even if we only count from 1982 to this day: The preacher killed Adam, the old doctor, the father and the girl pretty fast so he still should have hundreds if not thousands of souls already killing at this speed. Lots of non believers out there.

Also:

-The old dude that showed her those tapes look like 10 years old in those videos and considering that was 1918 he should have been more than 100 years old...

-At no point in the movie since the preacher reaches the brother's apartmant and gets in anyone decides to call the cops. The had a lot of time and a lot of things happened from this point to the end of the movie.

-If they needed to kill the preacher, why not pull the "calling David" move again and kill him like that. It just made no sense to ran away from him with all that "power" over him.

ANd the more I think about it, more questions come out. Just read this:

They really should have gone into more detail on what happened to David. From the old film and the story that old guy tells her, Christian's own soul was removed and he simply became a vessel for other souls. So was it Christian at all who was gathering the others? He never speaks as Christian. It's almost like his body is on auto-pilot gathering up souls.

So was David part of a ritual or not? Who performed it? Did the Granny & Company do it to get Christian back to his task? Where was his body until then? How was it so well preserved? All David sees in his flashback is Christian approaching from the woods. So I think Christian got David by himself, no ritual, no Granny. His melted eyes and the cross symbol on his back would probably make the police come to the conclusion that he was tortured in a satanic ritual.

tldr: In the end, I think the best answer is that the movie it's full of plotholes. They didn't do a good job at explaining things. So, I'm going to stop looking for answers now lol

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