Picking Nits
Unnoticed figures in photos and drawings; Barbara Hershey's character withholding the family history; the mother's protection standards; kids going into attics; Josh staying late to grade papers
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- Barbara Hershey's character sitting on the family history instead of telling her son is raised early as a nit; a parent would mention a ghost in every photo before their kids had kids.
- How nobody notices the weird figure in the pictures, or the figure in the kid's drawings, is a red flag.
- Rose Byrne's character is called a terrible mother whose protection standards were too low: she should refuse the new house and have everyone sleep in one room.
- The son has brought home zero demon drawings despite watching hundreds of horror movies, and the mothering in this movie was pretty bad. — Bill Simmons
- How Elise knows Dalton can astral travel is raised as a nit but disputed: a reply says she knew the father and went through it before, and mediums get a lot of leeway, like the Poltergeist medium.
- Whether 600 dollars per exorcism can pay the bills is questioned; a Patreon pod is the joke answer.
- Little kids do not go into creepy attics; a follow-up asks whether Dalton goes up because he is already called there, and heredity versus the fall is left a chicken-or-egg question.
- Patrick Wilson's character staying to grade papers while his family is terrorized would mean the divorce papers are signed; he is a high school teacher, not working the Mueller Report.