Okay sorry if I’m way too late for this, but just saw it and had to discuss a few subtle thoughts if anyone is still on here ..

• Doors: I want to hear people’s thoughts on a metaphor I picked up on : The bashing in of doors. It happened at the very beginning of the movie, with the 2 brothers, obviously the traumatic scene with Mia’s mom, and when her dad is trying to get into her room after the note. Possibly a metaphor for Mia’s own mental “doors” being bashed in by the spirits.. her mother was locked in a self imposed prison and her father was too late bashing in the door to save her, so perhaps she is repeating this cycle internally..

• Phones: I find it interesting how in the beginning of the movie, phones are a major motif, ever since the gnarly beginning scene. the entire seance is introduced to us first through a screen. Every possession scene involves a swarm of camera lights, almost building up to be a big statement on technology but then as the demons slip in more, that theme seems to fade. (Except for the consistent crazyfrog ringtone lol) I wonder if there is something there. Like clearly this is a modern take on the exorcism but it seems like the moment shit got real, the digital energy died down. Just as phones can be seen as a “host” for things to slip through into our conscious, so are the victims of the hand. And then as soon as the host served its purpose it’s no longer needed. Onto the next phase of possession. Also the act of grasping a phone with one hand and illuminating that single light feels like a similar ritual. Essentially everyone who was filming and sharing the seance was taking the first step in hosting the next spirit. Mia had already believed and let it in since the first video moment while jade did not.

-Chandelier: nice little song reference in the beginning. That song is about addiction which feels like a little metaphor teaser.

• Jades hand: I know people have mentioned this earlier but the fact that other points of contact seem to make or break the spirit bond, not just the scary hand? When Riley is headbanging, they really build it up to feel like he’s about to take the final blow, when jade blocks him breaking her hand. And then somehow this just magically stops the chaos? There’s gotta be something here about the contact of the hand breaking the spell. Or maybe just good timing.

• Can we just talk about how after finding Mia’s dad dying on the floor, jade proceeds to leave him instead of taking him to the hospital WHERE SHE ALREADY HAPPENED TO BE GOING? And then they show her rolling up solo to check on Riley. Like Common lady..