This was a huge disappointment. Ready for some satisfying class-based horror revenge, instead we get slow nothingness with meaningless gore throughout.

I'm all for body horror when it has a purpose but here it was very clear the goal was to be "shocking" and shove in gross stuff wherever without thought to how it connects to the film's themes.

And what are the film's themes? Hard to say exactly. There's vague 'rich people bad' and 'harvesting land for profit bad' messaging, but none of it is cohesive or clear. For instance, does the family pay in the end because they sold their land? Or just because they allowed the developer to disturb The Rise? Why is Cadi the one to deliver their punishment, she just seems like a random girl from the village. Why do some characters seem to go mad (was it in the food? was it her singing?) while others have to be directly harmed? Why did Cadi seem to covet their nice things if she was there to punish them for selling out? Why did she hate some food but then gorge on other food? Why was she so afraid of the gunshots and the rabbits? On and on.

The montages were very cheesy and unnecessary, and certain shots really cheapened the movie - the best example that comes to mind is we see Cadi shoves a broken piece of glass up her cooch (which would have cut her to ribbons btw but moving on); later she starts fucking the rapist brother and we get the payoff for the glass - fine, well done. BUT the film (I guess) doesn't trust us to remember so not only do they replay the scene where we see it insinuated that this is what she did, but then they give us an extra shot showing her doing it, overlayed on the scene of them fucking. It's so heavy handed, like yes movie WE GET IT. It also feels like they're saying, "Look, can you believe how edgy this is!" which is always guaranteed to make whatever is happening 100% less edgy.

Some shots were very beautiful and the location was excellent, but oof did this otherwise not work for me. Most of the acting was not great (maybe it's more fair to say the characters were not well written and the direction veered towards paint-drying slowness and awkward vibes), and in a film where nothing is happening most of the time you need charismatic actors and great writing and direction to even have a chance of pulling it off.