Heading out for a trip, a group of friends decide to rent a house in the countryside for a bachelorette party while several others look into finishing a movie of theirs, but when they realize the house is being used by a deadly cult preparing them for a special upcoming celestial sacrifice.
This was a decent enough genre effort overall. Among its best aspects is the generally fun setup that works fine enough to provide the kind of worthwhile setup before being turned on its head. Featuring the group going out for a relaxing weekend and wanting to find a way of having a fun time before a special bachelorette party splits them up serves it nicely enough, providing enough of a reason to get them out into the middle of nowhere as well as what's going to happen in the house. As there are some fun times here exposing who the group is and what brought them together in the first place as it all showcases their relationships and personalities quite nicely with the ability to bring together a nice friend group into a chilling situation and then gradually becomes far more immersive over the night as things start making sense. This setup brings about the kind of solid later scenes throughout here as the build-up to the whole thing is immensely fun. The whole thing about the figure observing the group from the distance as they explore the house and begin enjoying their time there makes for a solid bit of suspense to get things going, and the whole idea of being subjected to the strange invaders that start toying with what's going on around the house forcing them into a slew of defensive tactics to remain safe. These are fun enough until getting to the fantastic sequence involving the action home invasion as the masked assailants start dishing out brutal action and plenty of solid chasing around the outside of the house before setting up the brutal finale where the ritual the cult's been preparing for comes about. These all give this a great bit of action to leave a lot to like while there are a few issues that bring this one down. The biggest factor here is the general lack of urgency on the expense of the characters during what's going on. When they become aware that someone is actually on the property with them and that they are being hunted down, the scenes are handled with a genuine lack of urgency for their safety that it feels draining how they don't recognize what's going on. The inability to tell that they're in the crosshairs of danger even if not aware of the extent fully makes them immensely difficult to care about, similar to the later scenes involving them trying to make sense of the cult's actions when they're corned. Everything is somewhat spelled out about how the cult's preparations are about to go down, the fact that they just stand around waiting for something to happen or limply run away without taking it seriously, ruining this one significantly. Coupled with some budget limitations, these all hold it down.
Rated Unrated/R: Graphic Violence and Graphic Language.
