gedikreverdi Review of Gaia

Gaia (2021)

"She was here long before the apes started dreaming of gods"

[6/10 · 5 July 2021]

Forestry workers got lost in the forest and the woman ended up taking refuge at a cabin where a father and a son lived. They were worshipping the fungi that fed on humans eating up their flesh. His wife was dead and became a part of a tree and he was leaving meat there and praying in front of a hole in the trunk of a large tree. The male worker was already covered in fungi and they helped him kill himself. After seeing that she convinced her son of going to the city, he took him back and wanted to sacrifice because he's too willing to live in the world. She injured him and took his young son to the cabin where she became one of them and covered fully in fungi and he gave his knife to her so that she could kill herself before becoming one of those fungi-predator. Then the son left for the city as she wanted. He ate fast food in the city and his leftovers was already covered in fungi. It was obviously a slow burn but a different and interesting one. I wish they showed more of those fungi-men so it could be a lot scarier than this. They weren't able to see after they transformed and they avoided them pretty easily every time. And the father was a hysterical believer, almost a pagan bigot. He would express himself calmly how doomed our modern world is and his righteousness.