If Ellison had finished his first call to the police and turned over the films right away, do you think it would have broken the curse?
Or do you think just by watching the first film he set his family on the path that led to their deaths?
Maybe if he killed the kids.
shareInteresting essay here. According to the curse logic, just moving into the home sealed their fate.
https://www.invisibleculturejournal.com/pub/your-bad-theory-helped-a-killer/release/2
The structure of Bughuul’s curse, which activates when a family moves into a home previously occupied by the curse’s previous victims, but which propagates by murdering families only after they move out of the cursed home, reinforces the film’s anxious depiction of home ownership.