What happens when the studio give the director autonomy...

Rating: 1/10 (6 July 2019)

I never really bought into the hype surrounding Hereditary, it was ok but in my opinion only a Toni Collette performance away from being strictly average.
The success of that film obviously earned Ari Aster enough credit with the studio to be given free rein to create this unholy mess of a film. I mean really, an exec should have pulled him to one side about an hour into the studio screening & asked him to explain if it was a horror film or if he was just having a giggle at their expense?!
The film actually becomes totally implausible within the first, of 2.5 very long, hours when the new arrivals to Camp Wickerman witness 2 of their hosts launch themselves to their death from a cliff top then decide to stick around as other than the heads smashed against rocks, the scenery is quite pleasant!
If this film played for laughs I could've almost enjoyed it but I suspect the director actually meant this pretentious load of self absorbed nonsense to be taken seriously?!