Bring Advil

Rating: 1/10 (7 July 2019)

I'm sorry. I actually had to renew my membership on IMDB just to vent my thoughts on this film. I'll be short and to the point. Ari's sophomore try was nothing more than Hereditary meets the Sound of Music and dear God, these village folk could take a few singing lessons from the Von Trapps!
Without giving away too much, the premise started to evolve into something relatively interesting early on but quickly fizzled out into some brain-sucking, simple-minded plot. Please don't call it art. Please don't praise it as craft. Definitely don't call it horror. Some scenes are viscerally shocking, actually nauseating sure, but it's not a good sign when people are laughing hysterically at what is supposedly a horror film. Admittedly, I stuck it out to the end though, albeit with a hell of a headache, only to find out that even the credits sucked with soundtrack choices that made no sense at all. On another note, the volume track was over-proportionately loud, perhaps on purpose in order to annoy the viewer into submission. The ONLY redeeming value here was Pugh's performance. In this case, it literally took a village to destroy it. M. Night Shamalayan immediately came to mind, trying incessantly to repeat that Sixth Sense cherry high over and over again to no avail. Let's hope this isn't the case here.
It never ceases to astound me that movies given budgets large enough to feed a small nation can literally suck so bad. Just sayin.
Thanks for the forum.