I've never seen a film coast harder off one moment of shock value and zero substance. Maybe it was the hype that ruined it, but I've also never seen a film make every character so unlikeable. In fact, other than the sweet girl they kill 20 minutes into the movie, this film runs like a master class in how to make an audience hate all your characters and literally root for nothing but their demise. Their demise, by the way, comes far too late and on the tails of them bastardizing actual pagan rituals. They do decide to give you a second moment of shock value at the end as you breathe a sigh of relief that most of the terrible people get what they deserve, but nothing is better about this movie then it ending. That being said, Ari did follow this up with a masterpiece, just a shame we had to be introduced like this, because I still don't fully respect them.
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