Summary: A YouTuber is the galaxies last hope, that feels about right for 2026.
So, I went into this having not played the game before, I didn’t think the film did a great job of explaining the world or the mythology and that is my main issue with it. The cosmic horror we got was interesting, the under sea devil/creature, but it was too vague and under explained.
I understand if you want to faithfully adapt the game and the game is ambiguous then you don’t want to change things but I think changing the medium you do need to assume audiences won’t have the same sort of thought patterns.
There were some pacing issues towards the back half of the film and a lot of the stuff revolving around the character’s past were again underdeveloped. Really the issue was that due to the backstory stuff being so underdeveloped when the film went back to that you were groaning and bored.
Overall, a watchable horror film with some interesting concepts but the script needed a hell of a lot more work.
2.5/5
Pros.
Good concept
Interesting world
Watchable
Cons.
The world building is poor
There are pacing issues
Some of the camera work was a bit clunky
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