I swear I watched this whole movie… so why was I so baffled by it? It seems like such a simple premise: a woman (played by Jenna Malone) goes to a Scottish convent to investigate the mysterious death of a her brother.

The movie gets progressively weirder and weirder and I just didn’t get it. Possibly they didn’t explain what was going on, possibly they did and I was having random thoughts like why I’ve never see myself in the mirror with my eyes closed. Either way… wow… this movie becomes unstuck in time with weird ass supernatural nonsense. I think I might have ultimately understood some of it… kinda.

Not that it matters since the movie is so deathly boring. Just a long slog for 90 minutes with the random interspersed weirdness. At least it didn’t rely on jump scares and was trying for a (very mind-numbing) mood to deliver (feeble) chills.

The weirdest sin though is a scene where Jenna Malone walks down a hallway, turns a corner, and walks up to a mirror only to reveal that we’ve been watching the reflection the whole time. It’s the same visual trick they pulled off in the flashback scene of Contact… with Jenna Malone (as a child). It’s a gimmicky reference to a much better (and completely unrelated) film. Plus the effect was wobbly and unconvincing. It’s almost like a no budget 2023 film couldn’t match what Robert Zemeckis pulled off 26 years ago.

I’m charitably giving this flick an extra half star because at least it wasn’t a cheap religious horror flick that relied on the same old jump scares. Whatever the hell they were doing with the supernatural stuff was at least an idea… not one I fully understand but they tried? I guess?

Score: 60