24/29
The son goes missing
Scenario
Troubled father Leon takes his son camping in Appalachia. The local cult summons the evil demon Executioner. Leon must confront the cult and the monster to find him amidst the mounting body count.
Leon: What’s wrong, Toots?
During the climactic fight with Executioner, after Leon fails to take the safety off the grenade (the safety lever is clearly still in place). It wouldn’t have exploded, he would have been better off hitting him with it. This movie can’t decide what it’s about.
The other overt premise of the film is that there’s a backwoods cult of criminals who worship a demon who hangs people for their sins
And it throws all the kitchen sinks into the toilet and flushes the toilet and all the kitchen sinks swirl into the bowl and get clogged and the plumber who comes to fix this cinematic disaster of a clogged sewer movie isn’t very good with plumbing or filmmaking. The main idea is that a father and son go camping in the worst possible place and meet the worst possible people with the worst possible beliefs, side hustles, and folklore imaginable. And the rest of the plot points involving said demon don’t make sense in a way that’s pretty tone-deaf to the racial makeup of the two leads.
But it’s mostly annoying
At times the film takes itself very seriously. Other times it tries to play it up for laughs. It unsuccessfully tries to be a supernatural horror, an over-the-top social drama, and a father/son buddy comedy.