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I didn't really know anything about this movie going into it except that when I was a child, everyone always told me I looked like I could be a kid from this movie. Lol. Sure. Me and every other white Midwestern kid I suppose. (Also my wife said someone who was helping with my movie list said I would love Isaac. I don't remember this comment but it was spot-on. He was delightful to watch, top performance in the whole film for sure.)

Anyway, I'm absolutely a sucker for religious horror so obviously, this being a beloved classic in that area, I had a good time here. It didn't blow me away like Midsommar did but it may have been a tad unfair to all the other movies after that I started with such a banger. Anyway, aside from the angle of brightly-lit religious horror, it isn't going for the same thing. Not the feeling of being an outsider thrown into an unfamiliar place, but instead encountering a twisted version of what is familiar in one's own culture. It's a great vibe!

I think I feel the same way about Stephen King as I do about Charles Dickens. Both authors who I really struggle to enjoy whenever I try to read them (albeit for very different stylistic reasons) but they get a lot of adaptations of their work that make me appreciate their stories nonetheless. As someone who is not much of a movie-watcher and usually defaults to audiobooks for entertainment, it really makes me appreciate film as a medium when it allows me to connect with stories I might not have otherwise gotten into.