Serious swing and a miss here. Beautiful cinematography, and a nice analog synth soundtrack—overall reminischent of “Beyond The Black Rainbow” in those ways, including with lots of saturated lighting ond strong geometric shapes, and lots of long, quiet parts with little dialogue. Visually and sonically, it leans rather poetic.
And: TERRIBLE writing, just the worst excuse for writing I’ve ever seen.
Basically, a woman goes to housesit a big rural house, and just starts acting weird and turns into a killer for no apparent reason. First she kills the dog, then she kills the neighbor, then she hides and kills the family whose house it is when they return home. Also a weird, satanic-looking man appears and stands in the house late at night when she’s asleep, which I guess is supposed to mean something. Oh, yeah, aksi, in the beginning of the movie, when she arrives at the house and is looking around, one of the bedroom doors has a piece of paper with a pentagram drawn on it stuck to the back of it. Why? I don’t know. And then at the end of the movie the family’s two young daughters, who have escaoed and been picked up by a neighbor in his car, are revealed to be wearing pentagram necklaces, and pull huge knives out of their jackets.
It looks and sounds beautiful, though.
Basically, the cinematography, atmosphere, and sounds of “Beyond The Black Rainbow”, grafter onto the shitty dearth of interesting ideas of, say, “House Of The Devil”.
One review on IMDB said, “You could watch this movie backwards and it wouldn’t matter”. That’s about right.
What a disappointment.