They Remain (2018)

Seems like more and more movies are based on some kind of occult, witchcraft, sorcery, illuminate, new age lifestyle now a days. It's quite disgusting.

They Remain is a triumphant, beautiful, meticulous, difficult, challenging, intentionally abstract and recursive film. As such, it's likely to also be a divisive one. For those who didn't have the patience for, say, The Witch, They Remain will probably drive you nuts. But for those who are willing to meet the film where it is, rather than expecting it to come to you, I think that you will be amply rewarded.I hesitate to even call They Remain a slow burn. The words "slow burn" give the implication that it takes a while for things to get started, that they smolder for a long time before finally bursting into flame. When the first frame of They Remain flashes up on screen, things have already gotten strange, and that strangeness just continues to accrete on every surface, on every character, on everyone and everything for the remainder of the film's running time. It's a recursive movie, as I said, which means that it doesn't have a typical movie's build to some sort of satisfying (or unsatisfying, for that matter) climax. It turns back in on itself time and again. Do things get stranger? Sure. But do they really, or have they been that strange the whole time?They Remain isn't a movie that offers easy answers. In fact, it isn't even a movie that offers difficult ones. It's a film that opens itself up to myriad interpretations, all of them potentially valid, without ever offering even the most astute observer one particular "solution" to seize upon. For some viewers that may prove infuriating, but when a movie tells you repeatedly that you won't understand it, even as early as in the quote that shows up before the first shot of the film actually appears, you may only have yourself to blame if you walk out of it unsatisfied.

I don't think I've seen a film quite like this one. The best way I can describe it is it's like Mulholland Drive meets Alien. It's a psychological meditation about the horrors that lay dormant just below the surface of modern civilization.If you like avant garde film and are intellectually curious, this is well worth the watch.

The Blair Witch Project at the time of writing this review has a rating of 6.4, including my rating of 1/10. This is that much better than TBWP, which I found to be a load of cow droppings.The score and cinematography in this are top notch, both main actors do a pretty good job as well. That is all that gets this 4 stars. Any semblance of a story would have gotten this another star.I sat through this once, but would not do it again. A few times I considered turning it off, but didn't, so be it, there went 100 minutes of my life....Not a terrible movie, but not one I would recommend to anyone.