Anyway, here's my one big unanswered question.

The Bros show up just before the big final pit opening scene.

Were those REALLY The Bros? Or were those the twins' manifested belief that The Bros were coming and should be there right about now? Did they get in the car, drive down the road and have the Bros turn into monsters as teenage hormones and fears clashed? Or did they just vanish as the car left the geode's AoE? #Monsterdon

Also there's the whole bit with the Third And Final Return Of The Pit -- the zombie busts through the wall JUST AS THE KIDS ARE MANHANDLING THE GEODE ONE LAST TIME

Glen even POINTS IT OUT to Al! #Monsterdon

I think the whole two-day affair eventually centered around Satanic invasion because that's what metal-head Terry had on his mind for the whole time. And then, as he told other people about it, a narrative coalesced and it became a *social* belief.

That's why the Bible worked and the Rites of 80's Nu Metal failed -- only Terry thought the band's rites would work, but *everyone else* was a white kid who got dragged to Sunday School. #Monsterdon

What if the lightning strike created some kind of weirdass Belief Energy contained in those geodes? Something that reacts to what you believe?

You notice the first real Monster monsters in the movie are the things kids fear the most -- their parents, angry. Before that, it's not really even Evil shit -- Terry's mom didn't turn into a monster, she just vanished, leaving behind not TERRY's fear, but *Glen's.*

Glen, who was up in the room with the geode. #Monsterdon

So the movie starts with a lightning bolt striking a tree, which falls over. The hole the tree leaves is a gateway to hell, right?

Except it isn't, not at first.

First, the kids find some geodes. Remember those? The kids busily crack them open and wa-hey, they sparkle as you open them.

The spooky shit doesn't start happening until the kids OPEN the geodes and start imagining things. #Monsterdon

...I have a theory about this movie. Check this out:

There weren't actually any demons in The Gate.

Stay with me here, I think I can prove it.

#Monsterdon