text:  I'll try. Do you still say your prayers? No, Mom. I never said my prayers, never once. They scared me. Osgood Perkins says that basically her family screwed her up. All parents, we have to sort of just accept the fact that we are going to mess it up. We're going to poison the well, at least to some degree. And certainly the movie is much more about the parent than it is about, you know, the devil.