I won't talk much about this movie because despite being told that it was really scary, it turned out not to be much of horror movie. Shouldn't you have figured that out before watching it, I hear you ask? Why yes, probably, except I like to go into these movies as blindly as possible, so as to not spoil stuff, ass.
Sorry about that.
Let me say, just because it's not horror, doesn't mean it wasn't scary, but it was scary in a different way. In a gross and uncomfortable way. Basically, Martha escapes from a cult of sorts and stays with her sister while she recovers. We learn through flashbacks that "the family" has some strange ideas, like the women can only eat after the men have finished. Oh yeah, and the leader drugs and rapes the women through what they call "the cleansing." The flashbacks reveal more and more intense situations for Martha, which she doesn't talk about but is still affecting her, even after escaping.
There are some "what is real?" moments when some of the dreams/flashbacks seem to bleed into her current waking life. In addition, there's a real sick to your stomach feeling whenever "the family" in on screen, particularly Patrick, the leader. The movie ends just when the real horror would seemingly start. From a "film as art" perspective, it's a bold and powerful (flavorful?) ending, letting your imagination define what happens next. But from a horror fan perspective, it was unsatisfying and left me wanting.
Rating on the Spook-o-meter: 2 out of 10 boos
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