Satan's Rites may start with Hunger but then turn into ravenous Carnage games à la Polanski

Rating: 4/10 (23 September 2017)

Christian critics (they still exist, yes, sir) are seeing God in Him (Bardem), Adam in Ed Harris, Eve plus The Serpent in Pfeiffer, Cain killing Abel, and The House being a gateway to hell from Eden (the film begins, after all, with Jennifer painting her kitchen, saying she's building ¨a paradise.¨ Yours Truly, however, rather sees in Ed and Michelle a cartooned version of the couple Sidney Blackmer and Ruth Gordon in ¨Rosemary's Baby,¨ while he also sees in the baby (who in the climax, by the way, is called Angel by one of the Goys!) another Antichrist, be he/it a Jew or not, in an obvious quote re Buñuel's Exterminating Angel - in which movie a lustful dinner took place in a mansion whereto guests didn't stop to arrive until they became kinda allegories of a most Buñuelian apocalypse ... ;-) And yes! Of course, Him = Beelzebub in person ... LL