Even Hugh Grant can’t save this mediocre tale of theological undoing and entrapment
Iowa-raised filmmaking duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods are no strangers to an ambitious genre outing. Co-writers of the postapocalyptic thriller as well as co-directors of the 2019 slasher Haunt and the 2023 Adam Driver sci-fi vehicle, clearly aims to raise the stakes in terms of the aesthetically determined, high concept horror flicks that have been trending onscreen as of late.
While the two women are no doubt a product of the religious environments in which they were raised, Sister Barnes is the more impressionable of the pair, quick to offer grace to – if not faith in – those around her, while Sister Nancy is more firm in her boundaries. It’s a dynamic that Grant’s Mr. Reed is quick to observe and play into as he, at first, embroils the pair in a heated theological debate.From comparing Mormonism to Wendy’s and God to Jar Jar Binks, Mr.
turn, undoing the well-structured coherence of its first hour through a series of often mediocre twists and reveals. Here,’s high-minded ambitions get the best of itself: The film aims to shock, but struggles to commit to the perversity and, more importantly, logic of the bit, underestimating audience’s smarts and effectively pulling the rug out from under its previously well-staged self in the process.
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