Although Kokotajlo doesn’t feel entirely at home in the horror genre, he is clearly a talent to be reckoned with. Perhaps he’s at his best when working -- as he did with Apostasy -- with more personal material.

Some pleasingly icky special effects add to the general sense of mouldering menace. Where the picture stumbles, however, is in its almost total lack of effective scares.

Definitively worth checking out.

It is cursed by a slow, somewhat tedious pace and an oblique, maddeningly vague attitude to its narrative and back story. Sometimes you can simply obfuscate too much, and any mystery you are attempting to generate is simply going to be off-putting.