Gabriel Cavalcante

Would've worked better as a series, as the hour-long runtime isn't enough for any satisfactory development. For starters, characters are pretty shallow and underdeveloped. Their relations make sense at a glance but once you start to think about why Hammer and Johnson are together or why Hammer has a crush on Beetz, there's nothing to back anything up. The pacing is also off and the whole film looks and feels cheap, especially with those quick hallucination transitions every now and again (something many directors have done before but isn't implemented well here). Also, it makes sense to any horror fans how the teenagers are involved, but I wish there was more to that since they seem to not only stick around but also work to finish what they started. And while on that, the mythology doesn't have enough time to develop. Sure, Gnosticism is a thing and you can do some research on that, but the script clearly adds to it and it doesn't explain enough of the intricacies of its additions. All in all, there's meaning in the story and what the character goes through, but how everything is put together is ultimately lacking.