My quick rating - 3,8/10. I had this one on Radarr for quite some time and I am not sure why but time to find out. They had the focus completely wrong. Instead of trying so damn hard to make our paranoia about COVID the main point, that should've been the minor plot next to the major story of the witches practicing their ways at this lodge. But they went the other way around and spent entirely too much time hyping the lockdown thing after they of course made sure we knew the white guy brought all his black friends there. I don't even know why the makers think this is still a thing. It just seemed like they were trying to push that narrative a bit much instead of worrying about the fact the place they decided to vacation at was a coven of witches in the past. Nobody in this one looked familiar and they did pull off an adequate job acting considering the less-than-stellar dialogue they were handed. I am sure there are some outtakes of them joking "I am supposed to say what???" Once the focus went to the more horror part of it, I did find it interesting enough. Deon Taylor does have a good eye for his shots and placement to get the impact from a scare scene but there are so few in this that just got drowned out by the artificial drama the story kept trying to interject. By the time any of the good stuff starts, I would think the average viewer has already abandoned this flick. And it is too bad since even with a limited budget, the effects were adequate enough and didn't have that cheap CGI feel to them. This isn't the first gig for Taylor since at the very least he did a really good job with Black and Blue however it seems to be his first horror. Maybe next time he'll get handed a script that isn't fresh off the pandemic scare so there won't be the same preoccupation that there was in this movie.
Not turning up any streamers for this one as of now.
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