The Offering, a muddled horror film, falls over itself incorporating as many genre elements as possible. The result is the cinematic equivalent of combining every paint color on a canvas: a murky mess.
[An] uninspired, nonsensical mishmash, which crudely cobbles together second-hand religious imagery, abrasively noisy jump-scares, and — for some reason — techno-phobia.
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Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
Slant MagazineChuck Bowen
It inspires retrospective gratitude for the empty yet slick craftsmanship of someone like James Wan.