This has been on my radar for quite some time. What better time than now? By the way, thank you for helping me reach my goals here with getting hits.
First off, let me just note that this has a sweet cast. It has the father and the oldest daughter from the film “The Woman” which I absolutely adore. And it has Larry Fessenden who was in Stake Land and I Sell The Dead, both of which I really liked. So I have high hopes here. I am gonna try to not type so much. I get excited sometimes. Ohhhh, Robert Kurtzman was involved with the makeup. He has worked on a lot of fantastic flicks.
I am enjoying the foreboding music during the intro and the drawings, reminds me of something from Children of the Corn. Fucking Lucky McGee is involved too. Well, my expectations are officially high now. OK, so if you don’t have NetFlix or just don’t feel like logging on, go to this YouTube video, and skip ahead 18 seconds and watch until the opening credits are done. I loved how they did that!!
We start off with 2 teens and the dude is chasing her in the woods. They end up near this hole in the ground. She doesn’t want to do it. Her name is Aida. Well, she gives in and they find a better place, and we seriously already get tits???? Well played!!! They have sex against a tree while some dude is making a clay jug, and we also see a little into the big ass hole. The dude puts the pot into like an oven, and his eyes change, all white-ish. Aida tells her dude that his skin still feels weird, like warm. This is some backwoods community here. So she heads home after getting pounded and is informed that she has been promised to this fat hoss for the next full moon. He is wearing suspended and jeans and has an ample gut. Reminds me of my old Uncle George, who was a beer-drinking man for the 30+ years that I knew him. This guy is younger. They sign it with a bloody thumbprint. Aida wants to go to the hole and pray on it. Yup, this hole is somewhat relevant apparently.
This is more backwoods than Winter’s Bone. That says a lot. Fucking internet, fucking Time Warner!
Annnd back. Aida played Peggy in The Woman, and she was awesome, reminded me of Tina Belcher from Bob’s Burgers in a weird way. Aida goes off to a shed and puts some red paint on the crotch of her panties. Is there a fucking theme tonight with the films I am choosing? She goes to a pond and cleans her hands, and sees a reflection, looked like something was behind her. She goes and tells Dawai (who played her father in The Woman) about dinner and how she had been promised to be with Bodey. Dawai is clearly not happy about this. Dawai is the guy who makes the jugs. The one that he made has a resemblance to her, and she takes it without him knowing.
So they are setting up for dinner and the guy who fucked Aida shows up and talks to Aida’s dad I believe. Well long story short, that dude is Aida’s brother. Fantastic! During daddy’s moonshine toast, he thanks everybody for holding traditions with the Pit. And now we got some dancing and music. Yup, a lady is playing the spoons. This is just, wow. Her brother’s name is Jessaby, and he just called Dawai a retard. Jess is mad at Aida and said that she will get tested, and then Bodey will end up like Sustin (daddy). There is some test about her being a virgin I guess. I don’t really know. This movie is…..odd. She is talking to her grandpa, and she says that she knows who the next jug face is, it’s her. She says that he can’t help. If I know Lucky McGee, this will disappoint me in the end.
Larry Fessenden is fabulous for this role. Aida is afraid of not being able to provide Bodey a baby. She asks if the pit has ever taken a baby, and he tells her that it has. They travel into town. Oh, they are there to sell moonshine. Makes sense. Aida is in this little drug store type place buying feminine stuff. She steals a pregnancy test. She comes home and takes the test and it has 2 blue stripes, whatever the fuck that means. Yup, I’m a guy, and I don’t really worry about knocking up women, so pardon my ignorance. She is doing laundry, and she sees some young dude say something and it’s like an attack, and the girl that Aida was with gets attacked and killed. Was it a vision? Nope, she got got. Must be the Pit? The lady blows this loud ass horn. The pit apparently speaks to Dawai, and he makes jug faces to indicate who’s next to be taken by the pit. What the fuck kind of movie is this?
It seems like Dawai gets divine intervention from The Pit, and because he can’t find Aida’s jug face, everybody is pissed and worried about lost souls. She finds another Jug face with a baby on it, and Dawai hasn’t told anybody, but she knows. So basically, it seems like if your face is on the jug, the pit wants your ass. She comes home, and momma wants to inspect her to see if she has had sex yet. She doesn’t want to bring shame to the family. SO mom goes to finger her, but Aida won’t spread, so momma burns her til she spreads. And then momma calls Aida a little slut. Oh boy. Fucking momma was livid, throws her on the floor, starts cutting her to find out who it was. Aida claims that she was just playing with herself. Oh man, her knuckles got FUCKED, that’s where momma sliced the skin. Jessaby is acting like a dick, she informs him that she is pregnant. Dawai is molding a new jug. Uh oh, the face is of Bodey. Sustin says that it has to be done. So Sustin slits Bodey’s throat and lets the blood run down to appease the Pit. This movie, it is fucked.
Aida visits her grandpa. OK, we get some story here. So the menacing shadowy young guy is back, and he and Aida have a talk. Come to find out, he is there to get grandpa. Shadow is saying the pit is pissed because grandpa also hid a jug face, it was of his wife. Because of the hiding of the jug face, it threw everything off. And now the spirits will be pissed at her for doing the same thing. Shadow insists that she must sacrifice herself, baby or no baby. She digs up the jug face and places it in a tree.
Aida visits Dawai, and wants to talk to him, but he is tanked off of the Shine. Jessaby tells Paw that he has been sick for like a week and asks if the Pit will heal him, and Sustin says it should. So here’s how this works. You go to the Pit, you strip naked, you climb down into it, and you bathe in the clay and blood while Sustin kinda prays to it. Aida is starting to see bad shit again. Uh oh. The Pit is bubbling. The pit just took Jessaby, pulled him in as Sustin was trying to pull him out. Oh boy. Sustin blows the horn. Are all the virile young men dying? All that’s left of Jessaby is his intestines. Aida admits to Dawai that the Pit wants her and her baby. Sustin tells his wife, I think she is named Loriss, about what happened. They know that something ain’t quite right.
Sustin, Loriss, and Bodey’s father show up. Sustin starts punching Dawai. Dawai admits what he did as far as making Bodey’s jug face. The other guy was apparently Bodey and the other dead girl’s dad. They tie him up to a fallen log. Apparently they are going to sacrifice him to the Pit and let the Pit choice the next Potter. So the deaths that he caused, all of those souls are shunned and doomed to wander the woods with no peace. Aida goes to her grandpa, tells him that she has to leave and that it may be a couple of days before somebody checks on him, She takes off, and she goes and cuts Dawai free. She has Dawai grab all of his remaining Shine for currency. She throws her baby’s jug into the woods, and they hitchhike into town. They visit the dude, at the drug store. After some begging, he agrees to get them some money so she can see a doctor. His nice daughter brings them water and she offers up the name of an ObGyn. Suddenly, Aida goes into her weird vision mode, her eyes turn. This time she sees that “it” is attacking her mother. And momma is dead. OK, well it took Pyre, I don’t know if Pyre is momma or if Loriss is. I think Pyre is somebody else. The owner called Sustin, and well, Aida and Dawai are caught and brought back to their neck of the woods. OK, Pyre is not momma. Momma slugs Aida. DAMN. Momma just accused Aida of giving her pussy to Dawai.
Aida and Dawai are tied up and Dawai gets whipped by Corber I think his name is. He is Bodey and Ellen’s dad and Pyre’s husband. Hey, the names are starting to finally fit. Sustin whips Aida, got 5 good hits on that ass. Momma is cleaning up Aida, and she says Paw will straighten things out, which will be explained. Aida starts bleeding and informs momma that she is pregnant. Ohh man, she had a miscarriage right in the tub. Sustin says he shouldn’t have beaten her like he did. Momma says that he did what was right. So Sustin apologizes to Aida, and momma is saying that Aida should be ashamed as they don’t need another Dawai around, and then Aida says it wasn’t Dawai’s and admits it was Jessaby’s. Momm is flipping out, Paw is beside himself. And we just found out that the arrangement momma had spoken about was to send Aida to be Corber’s new wife. Oh boy. Momma throws Aida into her room. Momma comes back, blathering on about how maybe they shouldn’t even tell Corber and blah blah blah, and Sustin tells that woman to shut up. Oh, that cracked me up. Sustin is off to the Pit. Aida escapes through her window to check on her grandpa. She asks her grandpa where the shunned boy is. The boy/shadow tells her that she knows what to do. Ohhhh shit, The Pit gets Sustin. NOOOOOOOO! I loved Sustin.
Momma is about to kill Dawai when Aida shows up and comes clean about her jug face. Momma slaps her down yet again. Poor Corber, he is getting fucked over. Aida will be tied up with Dawai and tomorrow, the Pit will get what it wants. She apologizes to Dawai, but he says that he would have tried protecting his baby as well. Who the fuck is even left? Momma, Corber, and grandpa? Well speaking of which, Grandpa and the boy show up. They go to free her, but she asks if she leaves, can Dawai, and the boy says no. She asks if she stays, will that keep Dawai alive, and he says yes. So she stays, much to Dawai’s disapproval. Dawai is telling her to go, but she says that is going to do what she was supposed to have done, to begin with. Dawai professes his love for her.
The next day, the townsfolk show up. Aida apologizes for all the people that she has wronged, and then Corboer slits her. Well, Dawai gets to live at least. Dawai lights 4 candles by her jug face. Poor guy looks so sad and lonely.
End film.
That film was a nice take on the backwoods type story, with a little bit of Children of the Corn. I appreciated it. Some people will find it absolutely ludicrous. I absolutely love things like this. It is a different way of life. I found a lot of the story very unique. All in all, let’s roll with a 6.9, possibly goes higher in the future.
Final Rating: 6.9
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