Having just seen "X" and surprisingly enjoyed it, I checked out this prequel, which finds writer/director Ti West back to his usual unrelatable characters and well-made but uninteresting and stylistically overfamiliar, derivative tricks. In this case, he does the Coen Brothers meets The Wizard Of Oz, showing the elderly lead villain from "X" as a young psychotic farm girl, killing people mostly because, movie.
I'm actually kind of relieved. After "X" I was afraid I might have to start liking his movies. No worries here. Not terrible, well-made enough to almost label it as "watchable", not just painfully uninteresting like "House Of The Devil", but as with so much of his stuff, the cinematic equivalent of a Fluffernutter sandwich: fun, but totally unsatisfying fluff.
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