the mountain couple puts the whole stick of butter in the frying pan

I wish they would have swapped which cop believed her and which one did not. Having the young, lady copy believe her and then the old guy cop call her a "dumb bitch" was a little too "anti-MeToo' or 'pro-incel', A little too "look, women lie too so maybe we shouldn't believe them if they say they were sexually assaulted," or like when people say "all lives matter." I thought. If they would have had the old guy cop believe her and the new cop say they should follow procedure, I think it would have removed that element that kind of took me out of the story

you’re telling me the cops wouldn’t have found a gun on her, wouldn’t have even CHECKED her?? Cmon now.

When the Lady runs out to the motel balcony she sees an oldtimer peek around from next door. She says 'He's got a gun' and the guy replies, 'So do I.' That's the last time we see that guy, right?

I think this happens before we find out the big twist: the Lady sees the Demon coming towards the hippies' house but we don't know where Barbara Hershey's character went. Then the Lady hears a gunshot in the distance, suggesting that the Demon killed Genevieve (Hershey). But we find out afterwards that Genevieve got away...so what was that shot about?

The girl cop is a lot younger than the guy so I saw their attitudes as being an inexperienced cop acting on impulse versus a seasoned veteran slowing down to assess the situation. I would have a much tougher time buying a young cop being cautious and level-headed while the older one dives in head first and takes the situation at face value.

I think the swap would only work if the female cop had been older and the male had been the greenhorn. If the film had left the casting as is but had the young female being skeptical and the middle-aged man acting without thinking, it would've seemed like a scenario that could only happen in a movie, that it was trying too hard to show that some men do automatically believe women when they say they've been victimized.

I'm trying to think back to when I initially saw that scene because what you're saying about it being too anti-metoo may have occurred to me at the time. Honestly, I can't remember, but looking back on it, I land on experience being the determining factor.

the film's chapters were shown out of order. It was pretty obvious that they were hiding something and the girl being chased down was more than just a simple victim.

when Lady was going through Demon's wallet and saw the badge, I got a chuckle because I thought Demon looked like a cop.

I also wasn't 100% the redhead and the blond were the same person until she took the wig off. When I first saw her, I thought she might have been the Demon's first victim, or an accomplice for the real killer. I suppose that was by design by not casting a well-known or easily recognized actress for the part.