I really wanted to like this film (I absolutely love Alexandra Daddario), but this was yet another film with a disappointing twist.
Alexis, Val and Beverly meet Mark, Kovacs and Ivan at a gig and bond over their love of rock and metal. They all head back to Alexis' house, where the three boys are drugged. When they come to, they find themselves tied up in a room that looks like it's the lair of a satanic cult (satanic cult murders had been reported on the news). Alexis, Val and Beverly reveal that they actually hate rock/metal and are deeply religious and have been murdering people in a satanic ritualistic way in the hopes that it'll drive people to God, more specifically to Alexis' father's church.
What follows is a bog-standard thriller, where the boys fight for survival and the crazy girls try and finish what they started. None of it is particularly new or exciting. The holier-than-thou attitudes and arrogant and ignorant beliefs of Alexis and Val are annoying and make the film a chore to get through.
This film perfectly portrays people who give religion a bad name - those who use it as an excuse to do heinous things. Alexis and Val (encouraged by Alexis' father) believe that breaking one of the commandments is okay as long as you're doing it in God's name. They are narrowminded and judgemental and are the sort of people who genuinely think that rock/metal is satanic. They're the sort of people who actually believe that are hidden messages in metal songs that you can hear if you play them backwards. They are intolerant of anyone who does not share their religious views.
This film would have been more interesting if the girls were part of a satanic cult. Better yet, if the 3 religious girls had been faking the satanic murders, but had actually, accidentally 'Summoned the Darkness'.
Alexis, Val and Beverly meet Mark, Kovacs and Ivan at a gig and bond over their love of rock and metal. They all head back to Alexis' house, where the three boys are drugged. When they come to, they find themselves tied up in a room that looks like it's the lair of a satanic cult (satanic cult murders had been reported on the news). Alexis, Val and Beverly reveal that they actually hate rock/metal and are deeply religious and have been murdering people in a satanic ritualistic way in the hopes that it'll drive people to God, more specifically to Alexis' father's church.
What follows is a bog-standard thriller, where the boys fight for survival and the crazy girls try and finish what they started. None of it is particularly new or exciting. The holier-than-thou attitudes and arrogant and ignorant beliefs of Alexis and Val are annoying and make the film a chore to get through.
This film perfectly portrays people who give religion a bad name - those who use it as an excuse to do heinous things. Alexis and Val (encouraged by Alexis' father) believe that breaking one of the commandments is okay as long as you're doing it in God's name. They are narrowminded and judgemental and are the sort of people who genuinely think that rock/metal is satanic. They're the sort of people who actually believe that are hidden messages in metal songs that you can hear if you play them backwards. They are intolerant of anyone who does not share their religious views.
This film would have been more interesting if the girls were part of a satanic cult. Better yet, if the 3 religious girls had been faking the satanic murders, but had actually, accidentally 'Summoned the Darkness'.