A bad film than can be entertaining

Rating: 1/10 (30 May 2020)

Why?
The lack of verisimilitude leaves you two options: 1-. Run away or 2-. Keep watching.
What about if you choose 2?
You will be confronted with stereotypes recurrent ad nauseam in films of this genre: a group of youngsters killed one by one; of course we are talking about human sacrifices carried by members of a pagan community with excellent taste when it comes to the decorative arts - it shows the production department made a huge effort at this. Politically incorrectness would have set the stage among a group of dark skinned natives living in Tropical Land, but, in this case the natives are Swedes, namely, humans as white as ghosts and dressed in white (women with flowers in their heads, jutys to add to the stereotype), happy to the paroxysm of cherishing ancestral customs that are for the "Babes - in - the - Woods - like" visitors, simply ghastly.
Where does the lack of verisimilitude lie?
1-. Members of the group of American doctoral students in Anthropology visiting the community are of such naivetÃ© that one cannot help feeling exasperated: they are simply stupid. Even worse, they don't even talk the language of the group of people they will be observing, either with scientific or entertaining purposes.
2-. The setting: how can such a community exist in a state like Sweden's? You don't have to be a Political Science 101 student to realize that the mere existence of such a group would mean Sweden would be a failed state. Yap, it would have been less politically correct, but sticking to the old formula would have add verisimilitude to the plot at the risk of eliminating sarcasm - I think this could have been solved setting the plot in a fictitious country.
3-. The host, Pelle, a member of this pagan community, happens to be a student in an American University and a friend of the would be victims - something is wrong here: if this were true, he would have known that his friends would not bare the customs of his people, so this would rule out any invitation. But Pelle is indifferent to this, so I assume he does not care as to the practical consequences the clash of cultures might have - this does not make sense at all, even more so taking into account Pelle is an Anthropology student. Or, maybe, after all, he was after victims... regardless of his intentions, his presence in the USA and his contacts there would not rule out consequences after the facts portraited in the film.
3-. Cross references to the Silence of the Lambs: I would say there is an abuse of bodies set in a theatrical scenery when trying to convey the idea of maximum horror. Same here.
4-. The effort put at the description of rites: this was, to be honest, the most unbearable passages of the film. Not because of the anxiousness around horror unleashing upon viewers, rather how ridicule all these rites looked, a torture, really, for these rites take a significant amount of shooting time - for fun, I could not avoid imaging the film's team thinking outlook how these rites were to be. Notable: I even felt pity at how Swedes were portrait, even more so at the extras.
Recap, I think it is a good option if you are into the genre and if you don't mind these things. If you do, you will end up doing what I did: fast forwarding just to end the fim as soon as I could.