I was really impressed with this movie. I’m not especially into movies focusing on the devil, as religious overtones tend to become a problem. (Although I enjoy The Ninth Gate. I’m not sure why.) There isn’t much religious material in this, and instead of striving for an internal-logic solution, it keeps the audience trying to piece together what they’ve learned.
The pace is a little slow, but just mysterious and deliberate enough to keep things interesting. There’s a moderately long sex scene early on that is remarkably erotic. It could have easily been trimmed for length, but there’s something kind of nice about it. It’s not a type of scene you see in many movies.
We never get many answers, and there’s no reveal explaining what the goal of the evil force is. There’s a small hint. Does it matter? Not really. It’s a collection of characters stumbling into something larger than they are, which they have no chance of understanding.
This type of story might bother some people. I liked it though. It’s unlike any other horror movie I’ve seen, it does a good job, and it should stick in my memory nicely.
The one little quibble - and it’s not something that bothered me, it’s just something unusual. The direction is mostly really well done, except that there are a lot of instances where the camera will suddenly zoom in on a person’s face for dramatic tension. It’s a little dated. It’s kind of nice to see it brought back though.
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