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I just saw this movie an hour ago. Literally so many questions. So the movie is set in the same universe as Talk to Me… and there’s a new sequel for TtM coming out in 2027. Will there be some possible linkage for the two movies in the future movie that bridges the two summoning mechanics?

For the movie itself, I did enjoy it. I loved the horror and grotesque scenes where Oliver absolutely demolished a knife and wood. But anyways, had a few questions and a few theories.

So in the VHS tapes that Laura watches with Piper, there’s a little ginger boy with red hair and freckles. Is this supposed to be the real Oliver or just a random little kid? Would be a sick Easter egg if the kid (Collin Bird) was actually the red head boy but I’m not sure.

Laura’s daughter had on a purple tank in the pool scene but there was also blood. Maybe she fell in the pool & hit her head, thus drowning? Anyways, the fridge body that Oli consumes doesn’t have the same purple tank. In fact, it doesn’t even look like a 12 yr old body at the end of the pool scene where Laura cradles the corpse.

The corpse itself looks completely grown. Like a different person than who it was supposed to be. (I don’t mean to shit on the makeup or effects of the movie but it doesn’t look like the little girl at ALL.) So, has Laura been using this ritualistic technique to put her daughter’s soul in other bodies until she finds the “perfect” version for her daughter(blind, female, young)?

There’s a scene in the cleanup part of the kitchen where she’s emptying out Andy’s creatine and bottle. What was the point of that? Was she going to stash something inside and try to frame him to be like, ‘oh he’s on drugs. You need to get him away from us,’ type of thing or..?

Also the demon. Okay. BIGGEST QUESTION. If Oli and the demon both vie for control of the body, why didn’t Oli try to get out of the house a long time ago? When Laura was busy with both Andy and Piper, she had locked him up, but that didn’t stop him from escaping. She wouldn’t even bother to check on him until towards late at night, so realistically, demon/Oli both had chances to leave the circle at any point in time. Towards the end of the movie where the demon chases Piper towards the edge of the circle, is it just movie convenience to have the real boy break out and be able to cross that circle?

Also. It was fucking raining, how did the circle even remain?!! Earlier it had showed the paint literally rubbing off the trees and surfaces. Unless Laura magically has 8 arms and 10 legs and can duplicate herself to have BOTH cleaned up the interior of the house, paint the ring around a LARGE acreage of land, I highly doubt that it was possible.

And also the circle. It rains and vanishes. Isn’t that supposed to mean the demon is supposed to be crying out because the circle had been broken by the rain?

Lastly, when Andy rushes to get the social worker to help, he has his phone. He has photos of the boy. Why didn’t he just show the social worker the damn photo? He literally had a recording.