A brilliant piece of cinema

Rating: 9/10 (4 January 2020)

If you like Saw, or slasher movies, don't bother with this, it's a slow burn, it's beautiful to watch, breathtakingly shot, and is sinister as hell. A lot of haters must have expected something else, it is a story of extreme loss and sadness, thrust into a increasingly disturbing folk ritual. Yes, you can predict something bad is going to happen, that's the point, so how can you say it's predictable? Isn't that what you expect? None of that takes away from how the story flows, once things turn weird, you know you're in for a wicked ride.
There's a sense of helplessness that is terrifying, Florence Pugh is incredible, the humanity she exudes makes her critical in her role.
If you like your movies to make you think, this is for you. This is an art house horror movie, not Regular schlock