This immediately brought up a ton of stuff, a lot of which included the name Aleister Crowley. Learning from my previous search, I went ahead and added “occult” to this search. The next word, “zazas” is discovered by Steve Graham, etched in to the wall. The demon needed to be called to Peter, and Charlie and Annie out of the way for this to happen. That makes perfect sense with the final moments of the movie. The best I can find is kind of a vague invocation of Satony as a word of power of some kind, as it seems to be used to command the dead back to the spirit world. I’m not sure how confident I would feel in an occult book bought off Amazon but, you do you man. That website credits another site called “” which then cites a text called the “Grimorium Verum”. How reliable this website is might be in question, but it lists “Satony” as part of a Ritual of Necromancy. There isn’t much, but a site called “” actually does list it. Trying to add some precision, I added “occult” to my search terms. Let’s start with “Satony”…a simple Google Search of this word brings up, so it’s definitely a family surname.

After some mind numbing research and a pounding headache that I sincerely hope was not caused by a demon trying to possess me, this is what I found. This film was nothing if it wasn’t deliberate in its choices.

This movie is absolutely precise in its cinematography, coloration, and angle work it was clear, then, that the words we see scratched into the walls had significance to each part of the film in which they appear. After even more messed up stuff, the words “Liftoach Pandemonium”. One thing that the movie shows us pretty early on is the word “Satony.” Later, after some seriously messed up stuff starts to happen, we see the word “Zazas”. There are several words and phrases used throughout the movie that both provide context and foreshadowing for the shocking ending. I’ll be honest: I fell down the rabbit hole and got a little, okay a lot, obsessed with all the imagery and occult word use. You’re welcome. Tracy has a full review of it that you can check out keep an eye out for some other write ups from Signal Horizon soon as well. What I do know is it was one of the weirdest, most creative horror movies that I’ve seen in a long time. It wasn’t what I was expecting, but it also…was? what I was expecting? I don’t even know. Tracy and I saw Hereditary last weekend, which is going to take some mental unpacking.

Update: You can go see this movie right now!! Go see it. We did some digging to find out if the presence of those odd words could give us clues and/or insight into the film - SPOILER ALERT kind of, because this movie is too weird to totally spoil without a shot for shot retelling… Courtesy of A24

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