One thing confused me

Rating: 7/10 (7 August 2019)

Let me start this review by saying Florence Pugh is an absolute star and if she doesn't win an Oscar in the next ten years I'll be amazed. What a wonderful performance - even outshining the brilliant Will Poulter and Jack Reynor. I really liked this film but I felt it was a bit overlong and maybe could've been cut in places. And one particular place I think it should've been cut is the scene that has left me puzzled. It's a cult film on the same vein as the brilliant The Wicker Man (the original not the embarrassing Nicholas Cage remake). I get that. No need for any supernatural elements. The supernatural is imagined by the Swedish cult, not real. So why do we see Will Poilter with demon eyes when he killed his friend? For me there was nothing apart from this scene that made it non believable. That was what was so good about the Wicker Man - the supernatural was imagined, not real. And the Will Poulter transformation occurrs with a good hour of the film left. I exptected more supernatural events (I'm not a fan of supernatural horror BTW) but everything that followed was perfectly feasible. Am I just being a bit thick and have missed something obvious? Apart from that, a thoroughly engaging if overlong 7 out of ten