Wicker Man meets Man Called Horse

Rating: 8/10 (24 November 2019)

Pretty decent. Any kind of bait and switch film like this can only ever be compared to the WIcker Man. A lot better than the Nicolas Cage version and retained the sense of weirdness of the original. The ending when she smiles demonstrates the transformation, much like Richard Haris going through the rituals and taking over the tribe.
To our protagonist, the community had a structure and a life plan, whereas her previous life had none, just chaos and betrayal.
The issue of why they don't leave is problematic to the script. They had small motivations to stay: the promise of sex, of glory through the thesis ... but in reality this would have been offset by the suicides. Perhaps we can infer they were drugged throughout in various ways, or deep down our victims knew that if they tried to escape, they would be hunted and killed.

So sex and death, dolled out in some creepy scenes.