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NOES Easter egg (maybe)
Caroline (Spoiler)
Was Sienna a joke about older looking teens in shows?
The ghosts could have let him out
So is Gavin...
The tagline vs the movie
First time making a first post
Movie title from a (bad) scene description
They used the (first) Insidious house right?
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I assumed she may have been (after seeing the ending) just a recently deceased person. Kind of like the shocked situation Mia was in afterwards, it seemed to kind of play out the same way, with the little girl not speaking at first and gauging what was happening.
100%. Once they arrived at the manor they were done for lol. Really enjoyed the movie, few inconsistencies aside (like having cell reception one minute and none the next).
Obviously. I said what the caretaker said, I never said by walking or driving. My point is that is was closer than town. Yes it's 15 minutes if driving, but that's how it's mentioned in the movie to show that it's close by. That they looked at the distance to town instead of his closer place is an oversight (because early in the movie they are off the main road for a long time looking for the manor).
As much as I like the movie, I couldn't figure out why when they left to walk, they cut through the woods instead of taking the road they drove in on. Not to mention it seems they forgot the caretaker said his office was just fifteen minutes down the road and would have been even closer than town.
Classic horror tropes lol
Sure, I'll just spoiler cover it for others.
<spoiler>Going from memory (I just watched it once the other night) the main thing was mentioning Andrew Tully and that he met two men (forget their names) and started their cult, which lead them to start the Abaddon Hotel. But it was just mentioned without much elaboration. Then in the video flashbacks to the 80's they show that those men were the original owners of the clown that is in every Hell House and that the son of the Carmichaels is inside it (that part doesn't make sense when you look back though, unless at some point in between the 80's and the first Hell House he died and came back as the clown).The figures they see in the woods when Margo and Jessica decide to walk back to town (and once in the house) are also the dead cultists that come out of the wall in the first one in the basement...or possibly new cultists</spoiler>
Also, like what the other poster redban said, the movie is fine as a standalone without having to get the references.
It's not really an origins story, there's just a few moments that try and tie it together and those parts aren't that good when you look back at the first 3. But the movie itself was great, my second favourite in the franchise now after the first one.
Eileen Dietz was the face of Pazuzu/Captain Howdy, but she is white, not black, so you may be thinking of the wrong movie or actress. Pazuzu is still assumed to be male (if demons can be either sex) in the movie/book, the actor underneath the makeup doesn't define them (like the bride in black in the first Insidious was played by a male...before they decided to do the male to female twist in the second).
The new Exorcist films have no idea where they are going as I've read, as according to backlash of how bad the new one is, they are changing everything they planned (according to reports anyway). I haven't seen it, but the trailers look so bad, but I'll have to watch it and judge myself one day lol
As the name is "Captain Howdy" I assumed when I first watched it, that he came to her, as something a child would enjoy. I can't remember the part about him chasing and kicking her and I only watched it again the other day, but out of context, could he have been invisible (ie Paranormal Activity).
However, also, if you take it as canon (I do, because it was so good and I have a feeling I won't enjoy the new sequel movie) the show that had two seasons, shows what he looked like in Regan's mind. He was played by Robert Emmet Lunney (had to look his name up lol) if you haven't watched it. But that's how I believe, after seeing the show, she saw him as a child. Makes sense that that is how she would also see him as an adult.
Same movie I was gonna say. I was only thinking on terms of horror movies as a reply, not movies in general, and the hype, the marketing and then the movie itself (love or hate it) was really something in the world of horror.
Kind of an indirect reply, but I don't believe the movie says they aren't Catholic, just that they aren't religious (you can have a religion or even just believe in God without, living a religious life). I haven't read the book, so as you say maybe she was an atheist.
But anyway, to my reply, I read once that the devil/demons only target people who would be an attack on God, which is through his Catholic followers (trying to taint then ans turn them from him). And that attacking someone who doesn't believe would actually hurt the devils cause because it would drive them to believe, thus sending more followers to God.
I know it's not an answer, but I read that years ago, possibly on a message board lol, and it made so much sense to me.
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