Disappointing

Rating: 3/10 (5 April 2020)

Oh dear.
This film has annoyed me more than many other in recent history. After enjoying the intrigue and greatly nuanced debut of Hereditary, I was eager to watch this. But oh my, what a let down.
While I was enjoying the cinematography, and the colour palette and even the pacing of the action which is ponderous at best, I awoke the next morning with a feeling I had spied the emperors new clothes.
Every time I think about this film, it annoys me more. The premise is not new but certainly showed early signs branching out, however this is stifled by some awfully clunky dialogue and poor character development. Did anybody care about all the new bloods at all?
And even as some of the more graphic scenes are those that may linger long within the memory, surely what will stick more in the craw of many horror aficionados are the many unnecessary genre tropes, film school McGuffins and trippy visual effects that are crowbarred in to carry the action along, when they are jarring and at odds to the overall narrative and consequential ethereal feel to the piece. Possibly studio decisions?