“I’m a barn owl, cursed to live in human form.”
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Silence of the Lambs with less intrigue and Hereditary with less intricacy.
This movie felt like it had been shown to test audiences who didn’t understand the movie, so scenes which added context to the movie were cut and trimmed and diluted into just expo dumping onto the audience. It attempts to balance both a police procedural and a folklore-religious horror which so dominates the aesthetics of modern horror, and fails at doing both in an interesting way. It insists…