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Rotten food = hallucinations
posted by volkstraumSTAFFMOD on October 13, 2018 at 5:13 PM
If the scenes featuring an actual witch/witches/Satan can be understood by the viewer as first-person perspective, then the events of the entire film can be seen as a consequence of eating poisoned food. As in, nothing supernatural is actually happening in the film.
All the hallucinations, but also the delerium, episodes of violence/disobedience/incessant singing. It's been theorized that the real-life hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials was brought on by a poor diet of mold-ridden corn. An ailment in which young women and children were especially affected and became prone to outbursts and whimsical accusations. Repressive, religious dogma did the rest.
The family of this film had virtually no diet, they drew water from a stream that barely had any current and the corn was rotten.
Reply by bratface
on June 6, 2020 at 6:44 PM
Ergot was the first thing I thought of while watching this movie.
Reply by Schnatterick
on January 24, 2021 at 3:18 PM
That is a good interpretation and I would agree to that view of the film. But in the end I did not like the supernatural stuff that was explicitly shown (the red hooded young witch, the black phillip / devil, ect. - that could have been much better it it was like the disturbing scenes with the mother and the raven - stuff where you realy see both sides, the halucinations and the dry rough and disturbing reality).
Reply by tmdb53400018
on January 25, 2021 at 9:11 PM
What about the ending where the witches are flying around?
I feel this is a pretty decent film that showed real supernatural activities... in the diegesis of the film, that is.
Reply by OddRob
on January 25, 2021 at 11:19 PM
I would agree. But the whole thing kicked off when the baby was taken. No rotten food can explain that, or wild animal.
Reply by Schnatterick
on January 26, 2021 at 5:50 AM
well maybe that was a thing that just happened, like tragic stuff in the wild, no explaination ever given. And he humand, foreign to this wildernis just seek desperatly for explainations that would calm their grief about that tragic event.
Reply by OddRob
on January 26, 2021 at 6:00 AM
Umm he was killed and turned into a paste by the witches. It shows it in the film if Im remembering that right. He didnt die from natural causes or an accident. He was taken and thats what starts the spiral down fall of the family. I mean they werent exactly in the right frame of mind to begin with but that was just the catalyst.
Reply by Schnatterick
on January 26, 2021 at 6:09 AM
that is true, we see that, doen't mean it happens actually but true that is unexplained