The trailer for this movie had my hopes high along with the fact it is the same production company that brought you the VVitch , which is one of my favorite movies. This fact is deceptive since Eggers the writer and director has nothing to do with this movie. Read that again, this has nothing to do with the VVitch in terms of being a horror movie or what went into the writing and directing of this film. Writing wise it is based on the Arthurian Legend of the Green Knight , so I am still game given the fact that swords and castles are firmly in my wheelhouse of interest.
If I had instead gone into this knowing how proud they are of the fact they have vegan costumes , then I might have been more prepared for the tone of things to come. Lets start with the protagonist. The first Arthurian “hero” who does nothing heroic, in fact he has no redeeming qualities at all. He can not fight. If you let the kid from “Killing the Sacred Deer’ rob you then you are beyond a pussy and have no right to hold any sword or be considered a knight. By the end of the movie we are rooting against him. At least I was hoping he would get his head chopped off. Most of the movie he runs from his own shadow like a little bitch and while he does dive in the water to find a skull that is about all he has going for him.
Then there is the fact that he makes this pilgrimage for nothing. Its a slow movie that leads to nothing. Sure there is some creepy atmosphere and some cool shots, but if I had paid 15 bucks to see this in the theater I would have been pissed as hell. I am pissed that I wasted the time that I did not watch it,. That is two hours of my life that would have been much better spent doing something else. If you see this on anyone’s top 10 horror movies of 2021 list , do not trust another word that person writes. Terrible might be a strong word as it made me feel something which was pissed, I would say worthless is a better term for this film.
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