Basic Horror Film with Grandiose Metaphysical Window Dressing

Rating: 5/10 (24 February 2018)

I love sci-fi more than any other genre but this is not it. This movie's basic structure is horror with a metaphysical flare. There is one scene where a bear attacks and removes the front part of the head of a living human being. Another scene has an actor setting himself ablaze with a phosphorus grenade. I went into this movie expecting a mind-bending and wondrous adventure but it was a grueling 2 hours of torture. Basic recipe of the movie follows horror genre to a T. Each character gets killed off one at a time. We think the culprit is dead at the end only to find out in the closing scene that it still lives instantly letting us know that a sequel is in order.The production and acting was great. The storyline is ambiguous at best but the horror aspect overshadowes everything else.