Well, this is sure to be polarizing. Notably well directed, creepy, builds tension extremely well, very nice gloomy cinematography, the production values were totally on point… all for purposes of showing 90 minutes of the flimsiest of reasons for a nonstop bloodbath, just cruelty and violence as entertainment. Couple gets possessed by… um, something, it’s never explained what… but it makes their eyes glow occasionally just so you know they’re evil, and makes them want to brutally torture people, and spread the possession to other people, and that’s the entirety of the plot. Oh, also, the way you get possessed is the possessed people show you a video of a cave or something and then your mouth lights up like a flashlight. The rest is cruelty and violence. I mean, like, on the few occasions when one of the possessed people gets taken out, you briefly see a glowing mist escape their mouths and their eyes turn normal, just so you know they’re back and the people who caught them are now killing their actual, non-possessed loved ones. And that happens more than once. That kind of cruelty. And with no explanation other than “unexplained lights floating around”. Then there’s the fact that before the carnage starts, somehow nobody notices the “possessed” people acting like stiff zombies for maybe 20 minutes until it suddenly gets bloody and they snap back to life. Happily, mostly incredibly low reviews on IMDB, restoring my faith in humanity… a story this thin, even the terrific production values didn’t fool any but the absolute least discriminating viewers.
