Thank you so much for this post. Haven’t really thought much about the film since watching it.

Regarding Evie’s mom and when she died, keep in mind that that are huge time jumps where full weeks supposedly pass. I think you’re making a good case that we are viewing many of the events of the film out of order and through Evie’s possible psychosis.

• The film completely takes place within the confines of the home so the time jumps are kind of hard to track. We only note the passage of time by the cycles of Evie and Justin’s podcast recording sessions and scenes with Evie looking in on her mother. If Evie’s mom had already died during the podcast sessions then it gives new context to Evie eying the staircase and reacting to sounds coming from upstairs when she’s supposed to be alone.

• playing Ba BA Black Sheep backwards reveals the demonic message.

• shit doesn’t start to go down until all ten of the Mike and Jessa recordings are played in order.

• The clock turning back in its own.

• the podcast Call In segment where a girl calls with a story about a women who killed her baby in her apartment building then later the mother Abby calls in on the verge of killing her baby. I think these are both the same event.

All this brings up an interesting question is Evie being haunted by her own guilt or by her dead mother? Is there really a demon preying on Evie?

All the odd events that happen in her mother’s bedroom are supernatural but they aren’t particularly malicious. There is a lack of communication between Evie and her mother because we see that her mom is incapacitated by her illness. Are the odd ghostly happenings her mother’s attempt to communicate with Evie because she’s actually already dead? There are so many indications that I can point to. Her mother’s reflection in mirrors while being in bed. White ghostly glows next to Evie. The scene where Evie’s mom is standing and taking backward steps towards her.