I must have missed it but when did Christabella ever mention monsters? She mentioned a demon .. which to her would be the child.
I don't believe the cultists even know that the darkness has "monsters" in it, since they "take refuge in the church" ... perhaps a few have seen some things ..
The doors to the church are open when Anna dies and all the cultists see it. None of them acts surprised to see monsters lurking about, or mentions that it's out of the ordinary.
are you suggesting that Christabella is privy to knowledge that is beyond the other townsfolk?
I thought you were the one who said that?
Such as, did she know what she was doing when she sent Rose and Cybil to Brookhaven ..? Did she know that the "child" was Alessa all along and sent them away so they'd be distracted so she could kidnap Sharon? .. this interests me!
Christabella knew that Alessa was the source of the Darkness, and she knew where Alessa had been taken the night she was burned. Whether this is because there was only one room that could have held someone in Alessa's condition or because she had Alessa and the police followed, no one knows. Either way, she states that Alessa is the source of the darkness and tells Rose and Cybil that she 'hides behind the face of a child'. Christabella couldn't have known whether Alessa (since she believed she was a demon) had shifted into a new form unless she had seen Dark Alessa, or heard reports from people who had seen her.
Christabella was an arrogant woman. She knew she couldn't beat Rose's faith in her daughter, so she just sent her to what she knew would be her death. Sort of a 'She asked for it, didn't she?' kind of thing. It wouldn't do much good for Rose and Cybil to stay and become part of the church anyway because they both stood up to Christabella, something that couldn't be allowed in front of the other members. In other words, she thought she was sending them to their deaths- until she realized Sharon was Alessa.
I'm really not getting mad
this part has been confusing the hell out of me too, it seems the movie says one thing, and then contradicts itself...
The movie is highly metaphorical. What appears to be one thing is often something else (i.e., Dark Alessa appears to be the devil, but is really a manifestation of Alessa; the townspeople appear to be dead, but they aren't; etc.) Sometimes what appears to contradict something else is just metaphor, and it really means something entirely different than what it seems like on the surface.
BUT i still firmly believe Dahlia is in SH just to watch the transitions, and be there for the final revenge .. and to live out her eternity alone. Unless you guys have a great, sound theory about Dahlia .. you won't change that belief
Dahlia is there because she failed Alessa. Alessa decided to entrap her own mother for this failure (I mean, really, nine years watching her child being tortured by the townspeople and she never did anything? Not exactly Mother of the Year material), but not kill her since her mother "loved her baby". Dahlia's punishment was to watch the cultists die and to see the dark monster her child had become because of her ineptitude and weakness.