I actually quite enjoyed this movie.

Rating: 8/10 (22 February 2020)

I came into this movie excepting it to be an intense psychological thriller, and not so much a "horror" film with camp and gore and scary monsters lurking about. But what it actually turned out to be in my opinion was actually a really good marriage between the two.
I've seen some reviews stating that some of the sences were outright laughable and because of this they gave a negative review. I saw it in a different way. I felt like those parts really reminded me of the campy B rated type horror flick that I personally love, while still maintaining that intense psychological thriller feel to it. I didnt feel like some of the aspects people have an issue with took away from the film. I actually think it added to the film and in effect to the genre of the film itself.
Alot of people also say that the subject matter is not original, to which I agree. But I'm willing to forgive it for that as it's really hard to make a story with subject matter that's never been touched before. Though I will say that the film really did seem to take a bit too much time on scenes you'd expect to happen, and less time with things that may have been more on the original/shocking side. Though the film did have it's fair share of shocking scenes. I felt like the film makers could've spent more time w/ finding new and creative ways to shock the audience and spent a bit less time on the scenes that though they were undoubtedly disturbing, they were in fact what the audience would've expected to happen in a film with such subject matter. Its because of this and the atrocious audio mixing that I deducted a couple stars from my review.
Negative aspects aside, I still thoroughly enjoyed this film for what it was. The beautiful cinematography and transitions they did between some of the scenes along with the helter-skelter placed and uneven buildings throughout the commune that was quite reminiscent of german expression combined with what I thought was a spectacular ending also reminiscent of older films that intentionally leave it somewhat open , definitely warrant in my opinion a positive review for this film.