The greatest horror movie. Ever.

Rating: 10/10 (29 September 2019)

Ive held off reviewing this movie for years as it is one of the few that deserve 11 stars. I'll need to update and and do it justice. but for now, I'll capture the high lights why it's so good.
1. This doesn't use CGI or jump scares to affect your fear. It doesn't need to. By building up a very unknown and alien evil that we never truly see, your imagination will take care of that. What are the beings inside Ragen? who are the "us" referred to by the creature? Why does it get to boss around the others? Why do they feel it's fun to torture a little girl and kill priests. You don't need to be Catholic to be creeped out and deeply affected.
2. We can all empathize. Like The Fly, being taken over by an alien force that over powers us, is familiar to a teen in love all as it is to someone diagnosed with a disease. It's never easy, always uncomfortable and you'll never be the same after. And, we get to visualize the effects, in real time as Ragen transforms into the grotesque corporel representation of that foreign agency, which no one can control.
3. Plays on our fears of the unknown in the thereafter. Where do we go after death? Are there ghosts and demons? Is what we do in this world relevant in another? These are deep questions raised by this horror movie...
4. The visuals, sounds, score and language in almost ever scene is creepy, deep and/or dark. There's human pain, fear, triumph, redemption, empathy jealousy etc.. all raw emotions that move and control people. All this erases any thought of comedy or lightness that's built in to the horror genre.
5. The Devil is portrayed in its darkest form here.
So, in summation, this movie has all the qualities of excellent dramas and thrillers wrapped in a scary package that hits all the right notes at the right time - terrifying us to the core. This is why, for me, this is the first and last truly scary horror fiction ever made. Period.