A Good, Unscary But Flawed Horror Movie

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2019)

22 May 2017. It's odd to hear a variation of musical strains from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) used in this horror movie instead of a ship floating along the surface of the moon or surrounding a dark, black monolith, but it's there. This movie has the raw and grittiness of The Name of the Rose (1986) and The Revenant (2015). This movie rather being so much as a scary, horror movie is more of a serious religious family drama with periodic insertions of the occult. It doesn't quite have the intensity nor creepiness of erotic horror film Under the Skin (2013) or Siren (2016) nor the more compelling story of Black Death (2010). The ending is also odd in that it doesn't really seem to flow naturally from what went on earlier in the movie, almost as if it was tacked on at the last minute to include some sort of dramatic ending.