This is first and foremost a thriller/horror movie that trades in tension and suspense both of the slow-boil kind and the more traditional form.

First-time director Goran Stolevski takes chances, doesn’t underestimate his audience, and tells a story worth telling.

Beautifully filmed and emotionally on-target when confined to 1924, it loses its way once unmoored in time and left adrift on the currents of the years to come.

With a tongue-in-cheek, devil-may-care approach, writer/director Ti West embraces many of horror's time-honored tropes and splashes them all over the screen.