A posh English Vicar, Tuppence Middleton, runs afoul of an ancient God.
There is a good sense of place here, and a certain folk tradition, however, as the film progresses you start to realise you have seen this before. The good and fresh ideas that this film presents in the first act that then get turned into repetitive slop in the end.
The mythology of the film’s antagonist is interesting but never fully explained, which feels like a missed opportunity. Ralph Ineson is as always great, however, his character makes little sense, as the opening frames his character in the procession to see off the beast and having lost a son to it, yet then being the evil cult leader servicing the beast in the end.
Whilst I appreciate what this film was trying to do in terms of aesthetics and an adherence to British folk tradition, it was just creatively hallow.
Overall, good ideas wasted with generic storylines.
2/5
Pros.
The ideas
The setting and the feel of it
Cons.
The ending
Making Ineson the villain again
You feel like you have seen it before
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