It’s an eerie scene because Leah can feel lingering emotions and sense past tragedies, but there’s never a moment where we see her turn to look at the tree and scream. We gradually see several faces (souls) trapped in the tree. As the travelers approach the valley controlled by the devil-witch, Leah is left behind and she feels a sense of dread while leaning against a tree. Leah, a good witch just coming into her power, is warned about the witch and she prepares by connecting herself with the earth and the valley through some interesting and unconventional means.Įarly in the film, Will Smythe, Leah, and a few other adults and their children exile themselves from Dalton’s Ferry after Will is accused of adultery. In “Eyes of Fire,” this earthly creature takes the form of a devil-witch who controls the souls in the valley, summoning them from the trees when she needs to. The souls of those who have died gather into one evil, breathing spirit. The blood of those victims can gather in one dark spot, and it seeps into the earth, infecting it. Sometimes, things can get out of balance, especially in places where large numbers of people have died unjustly. According to Marion, there’s a Native American belief in the natural balance of all things. This lore is further explained by the film’s Lone Ranger/Aragorn-type character, Marion. The trees act as power cells or storage units for the devil-witch who holds dominion over the forest.
In the forest just beyond the valley, there are trees that contain the trapped souls of those who settled in the valley before.
While the cursed valley in the film doesn’t make Will Smythe evil, its chaos brings to the surface the worst already in him – his pride, ego, stubbornness, blind devotion, and dark secrets…but we’ll get to those later. The natural world (and location) is used as a plot device to expose the characters’ true selves.
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