Nothing new, nothing great

Rating: 4/10 (1 December 2019)

I understand why some people like this film. I can't bring myself to like it simply because it is full of clichÃ©s and the plot isn't solid. The beginning of the film is quite interesting. It's interesting to see the relationship between two people that are falling apart and...that's when the film decides to become just another medicore horror film.
There are nice visuals, interesting cinematography and the actors themselves aren't bad. The problem is that when you actually pay attention to the characters and the plot they are not beliavable. I'm not going to spoil anything, but quite early in the film, there's a quite shocking moment (or it supposed to be shocking) the reaction of the characters lasts literally 5 minutes and the next scene is just about them doing other stuff like nothing happened. Real people would act in a whole different way (even for a horror film).
From the very first "distrubing" moment that should give away the horror, a normal person, with an average intelligence would just act differently, while the characters of this film act in a ridicolous way. And the excuse for them to act that way are pretty weak. You'll hardly find yourself relating to their choices or even understanding the logical or illogical reason for being basically the usual "stupid horror character" of a horror film.
Finally this is a typical horror film, where the actions of the characters are determined in order for them to serve the "horror plot", they aren't people, they are puppet that act stupidly just because if they acted like real people, the film wouldn't hold up.
It's a shame because there could have been a lot of good material to use, even if themes such as "cults" and "horror" are really nothing new. The ending in my opinion is a typical b movie ending. And a lot of this film can be guessed from the very beginning, and I mean a real lot. I bet against myself, and my guesses were always right. I'm no expert and surely no genius, I just think that this film is made to impress the audience with some nice scenes and its colourful aesthetic sense, but if you stop and ask question about the plot you'll find yourself saying "that does not make sense, even for a horror movie".