Somewhere between "OK" and "meh"

Rating: 6/10 (12 January 2020)

CONTAINS SPOILERS!!! Was really looking forward to this after Hereditary. Had to watch it over two nights because of the length. Really liked the first 90 minutes and was pumped to finish it the next night but was ultimately disappointed. Both it and Hereditary have depressing endings but I thought the end of Hereditary was bizarre and brilliant, where this just left me...well...depressed. And like many others have stated it isn't really scary at all which also disappointed me. I'm still giving it six stars because the mystery kept me interested and it did do a good job of building up a palpable tension throughout. Problem is it just didn't deliver on it. I actually think it would have been better if it turned out there was some dark supernatural element behind all this instead of just a cult with bizarre rituals and hallucinogenic drugs.