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Priest working with no light


Can someone explain the requirement that there be no light.

How did the priest build a tub of water that could not be seen or felt when there is light?

Even weirder, why would he do that?

I can understand a door disguised as a wall, as a possible optical illusion.

But when a magical tub of water can disappear and reappear based on whether there is light in the room, that just gets a bit too unreasonable.

And the meideros girl that can disappear and reappear based on whether there is light in the room. How did the girl get discovered by the church then. How would her family even find her after she got possessed if they can only interact with her in the dark.

Even her blood disappears with light.

So the lack of light somehow shifts the room into a different dimension? WTF?

If the priest has to work in the dark with night vision to work on the possessed girl, there should be night vision goggles in the penthouse. But there were none mentioned. Possible small plot hole, I don't know.

And you would think with the "exhaustive documentation" requirements, the vatican would know everything about the penthouse and its secrets instead of knowing absolutely nothing, or knowing but sending in a priest that knows nothing.

A possible explanation is the well was already there. But that makes even less sense. Why would the vatican pick that penthouse with its secret magical hell portal to be the lab for experimentation?

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since the movie confirms the existence of demons and god (and all it conveys). your questions can be answered with something this simple:
it was god/lucifer's will.

its extremely sad, but true, when dealing with religion.

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The Priest stated "Prisons of Darkness" which means only you can use night vision.

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"How did the priest build a tub of water that could not be seen or felt when there is light?

Even weirder, why would he do that?"

Eventually the priest Albelba decides that the Medeiros girl needs to die.

I think that he tried to starve her out, but then she bit herself to make herself an undead zombie, to thwart that plan.

And at some point I believe he tried to kill her, but that didn't work out either.

Perhaps in his exorcism attempt he tried to banish her through a gate to Hell, so he needed a gate to Hell, but then during that attempt he failed, so he ended up with a gate to Hell in addition to a possessed girl in the attic?

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"How did the priest build a tub of water that could not be seen or felt when there is light?

Even weirder, why would he do that?"

Eventually the priest Albelba decides that the Medeiros girl needs to die.

I think that he tried to starve her out, but then she bit herself to make herself an undead zombie, to thwart that plan.

And at some point I believe he tried to kill her, but that didn't work out either.

Perhaps in his exorcism attempt he tried to banish her through a gate to Hell, so he needed a gate to Hell, but then during that attempt he failed, so he ended up with a gate to Hell in addition to a possessed girl in the attic?

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"How did the priest build a tub of water that could not be seen or felt when there is light?

Even weirder, why would he do that?"

Eventually the priest Albelba decides that the Medeiros girl needs to die.

I think that he tried to starve her out, but then she bit herself to make herself an undead zombie, to thwart that plan.

And at some point I believe he tried to kill her, but that didn't work out either.

Perhaps in his exorcism attempt he tried to banish her through a gate to Hell, so he needed a gate to Hell, but then during that attempt he failed, so he ended up with a gate to Hell in addition to a possessed girl in the attic?

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"How did the priest build a tub of water that could not be seen or felt when there is light?

Even weirder, why would he do that?"

Eventually the priest Albelba decides that the Medeiros girl needs to die.

I think that he tried to starve her out, but then she bit herself to make herself an undead zombie, to thwart that plan.

And at some point I believe he tried to kill her, but that didn't work out either.

Perhaps in his exorcism attempt he tried to banish her through a gate to Hell, so he needed a gate to Hell, but then during that attempt he failed, so he ended up with a gate to Hell in addition to a possessed girl in the attic?

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