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Given how he a terrifying sight on his birthday along with a shot that where the camera suddenely focuses on Jackson. The film seems to deliberately set up him up as the main character of the second movie. Assuming of course, it won't be Joel.

Given how he a terrifying sight on his birthday along with a shot that where the camera suddenely focuses on Jackson. The film seems to deliberately set up him up as the main character of the second movie.

** Alternatively, [[spoiler: this would be met with the same trick that Rose's attempt at isolation was - just conjure a ''hallucination'' of committing suicide, and instead use it to keep the target sedate until a witness happens along]].

Judging by the fact that Rose, Laura, and the professor all had traumatic incidents involving death in their pasts, it could be that the Entity is deliberately setting up Rose's nephew Jackson to be a potential future victim. The Entity has an incentive to make not only its victim's //deaths//, but also their last few days as horrific as possible in order to spread misery and give itself a bigger pool of carriers.

[[WMG:The only way to defeat the entity is to [[spoiler:kill yourself with no witnesses]]]]

We know early on that there seems to be a tendency for mental illness in Rose's family and that was Rose has been under a ton of stress in dealing with the trauma of her mom's death, her sister, and on top of all that, her job caring for mental patients. Perhaps having a much more violently insane patient suddenly go off the rails and kill herself right in her office triggered a series of increasingly violent delusions. The previous [[spoiler:suicide chain]] may be the result of an UnreliableNarrator, plus Rose's grabbing some random death-scene photos from her ex's evidence files.

We know early on that there seems to be a tendancy for mental illness in Rose's family and that was Rose has been under a ton of stress in dealing with the trauma of her mom's death, her sister, and on top of all that, her job caring for mental patients. Perhaps having a much more violently insane patient suddenly go off the rails and kill herself right in her office triggered a series of increasingly violent delusions. The previous [[spoiler:suicide chain]] may be the result of an UnreliableNarrator, plus Rose's grabbing some random death-scene photos from her ex's evidence files.

[[WMG:Alternatively, the Smile Entity is the same or similar species as the entity from ItFollows.]]

[[WMG:Alternatively, the Smile Entity is the same or similar species as the entity from It Follows.]]

Considering all three have the ability to control their victims' sense of reality and [[ForTheEvulz seem to have no reason to kill aside from just for the heck of it]], it's entirely possible that the Smile Entity belongs to the same species as [[Film/FourteenOhEight Room 1408]] and the [[Film/Oculus Lasser Glass]].

We know early on that there seems to be a tendancy for mental illness in Rose's family and that was Rose has been under a ton of stress in dealing with the trauma of her mom's death and with her sister. Perhaps having a much more violently insane patient suddenly go off the rails and kill herself right in her office triggered a series of increasingly violent delusions. The previous [[spoiler:suicide chain]] may be the result of an UnreliableNarrator, plus Rose's grabbing some random death-scene photos from her ex's evidence files.

We know early on that there seems to be a tendancy for mental illness in Rose's family and that was Rose has been under a ton of stress in dealing with the trauma of her mom's death and with her sister. Perhaps having a much more violently insane patient suddenly go off the rails and kill herself right in her office triggered a series of increasingly violent delusions. The previous murder chain may be the result of an UnreliableNarrator, plus Rose's grabbing some random death-scene photos from her ex's evidence files.

[[WMG:The Smile Entity exists only in Rose's mind.]]

[[WMG: Rose never visited the hobby shop to buy the toy train for her nephew]]
The Smile Entity is shown to be able to alter its victim's perception of reality. With that in mind, it's possible that the entire scene in which Rose stops at a hobby shop to buy a toy train for her nephew's birthday was all a hallucination brought on by the Entity. In reality, instead of going to the hobby shop, Rose went straight home, [[spoiler:killed her cat, and put it in a gift box]]. Afterwards, the hallucination wore off and Rose began wrapping what she thought was the toy train. The film seems to hint at this during the hobby shop scene when the camera tilts down to show an image of a smiling family, implying that the Smile Entity is in control here.

The Smile Entity is shown to be able to alter its victim's perception of reality.
With that in mind, it's possible that the entire scene in which Rose stops at a hobby shop to buy a toy train for her nephew's birthday was all a hallucination brought on by the Entity.
In reality, instead of going to the hobby shop, Rose went straight home, [[spoiler:unknowingly killed her cat, and put it in a gift box]]. Afterwards, the hallucination wore off and Rose began wrapping what she thought was the toy train.
The film seems to hint at this during the hobby shop scene when the camera tilts down to show an image of a smiling family, implying that the Smile Entity is in control here.

The Smile Entity is shown to be able to alter its victim's perception of reality. The film never shows how [[spoiler:Rose's cat was killed,]] instead cutting straight to the scene of her wrapping her nephew's gift. Most likely, the scene of her buying the toy train at the hobby shop was the hallucination the Entity gave Rose while she was [[spoiler:killing the cat and putting it the gift box.]] The film seems to hint at this when the camera tilts down at the hobby shop to show an image of a smiling family, implying that the Smile Entity is in control here.