"Yeah."
The familiar premise of an hyper-intuitive young female FBI agent tracking a long-standing serial killer with occult overtones and a link to her past is given a reasonably creepy outing in this unexpected box-office hit. With its eerie hallucinatory soundscape and bleak and gloomy visual style, the film relies on its simplicity for its effectiveness in creating jump-scares and general atmosphere. Maika Monroe gives an intense, chilly and precisely-controlled performance as Agent Lee Harker, with Blair Underwood contrasting nicely as her more seasoned family-man lead on the case, and Nicolas Cage uses his unsettlingly unpredictable skills to good effect in the titular antagonist role. The film plays like an extended grim early episode of The X-Files and is perhaps a case of more hype over substance, and the actual plot mechanism becomes increasingly unlikely, the third act still pays off nicely.
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