The Borderlands

I think this could've been much more without being over-reliant with the genre gimmick of "camera crashing/glitching": of course, when faced with a small budget and/or finite resources, you gotta get smart about it, and that's why I really liked the "lamb" scene, because everything just works: the dark only lit up by the fire, the boys running away in the light of the flashlight, etc... It only shows glimpses, but succeeds in building a perturbating scene over it. While, if we take the ritual by the end, the camera glitches really feel like a cop-out, although there was some timid setup that the eldritch presence that's behind the events of this film can also distort technical equipment. I think that, while this is a textbook eldritch horror movie, I also liked the narrative thread concerning faith, and how every character positions himself within it. It's a very pessimist outlook, as the belief in God quickly falters, even in the priests, as soon they stumble into something something much more incomprehensible but terribly tangible. I really, really liked the ending, it took a direction I didn't expect, it was a much better example of "seen-not-seen" than the scene that leads up to it, and the two titular actors made such a great job in showing the utter and raw desperation they had in those moments. Class acting, I must say. It's rare to see someone portray primal fear this good, expecially in an unknown movie.