It is not known exactly how the book ended up in their house. One night, Sam asks his mother to read from a pop-up storybook he found on his shelf. She has a confrontation with the school’s authorities and removes him from the school. He has a manic episode at school where he attacks a classmate with a crossbow that shoots darts. Amelia tells him that the monster is a product of his imagination. Samuel builds homemade weapons that he tells his mom will help him defend her from ‘the monster’. In fact, he is such a pest that you immediately figure out – by looking at her disheveled hair, haggard face and eyes that look as lifeless as a poached carp, how exhausted and sleep deprived she is, thanks to Samuel. In the dream, she falls back on the bed from the car wreck and onto the bed, where she wakes up and hears her son Samuel calling out to her repeatedly. Because that’s how long it has been since her husband died in a car accident and was decapitated. It is a sequence that she has probably been reliving – and tormented by – for seven years. The movie opens with Amelia in a dream sequence.
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