The Grandmother and Billy left the home. She was walking down the stairs. There was no way Billy could of ran back up passed her without her seeing him and go close the door.
Yes, but remember that the scenes were intercut out of sequence. We saw Billy in the car, then in the house, then in the car, then at the crack in the wall, etc. We can't be sure what the real sequence of events was. Perhaps the estate agent saw Billy in the bedroom when he went to fetch his book, and the scenes of Billy in the car happened later, even though we were shown them earlier. The time sequence is deliberately unclear precisely so that the ending can remain ambiguous.
In the above scenario, the agent smiled because she thought Billy was cute, nothing more. There's nothing sinister in and of itself about the same estate agent selling the house both times; it was only five years later. My parents' house was sold by the same agent who had arranged the purchase 20 years earlier.
Billy throwing himself out of the car is not an ambiguous act, but we don't know why he did it. He could be: (a) complying with his demon/father's request to join his parents in death; (b) insane like his father, in which case he imagined his father's voice and complied; or (c) suicidal out of grief and a belief that by dying he could be with his parents. Suicide in children so young is rare but not impossible; it's also a very disturbing idea, of course. Anyway, only (a) involves the supernatural. It's also the most obvious interpretation, but (b) or (c) are also possible, thus maintaining the ambiguity - was it all insanity, all demonic or a combination?
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