Review: The Endless (2017)
I'd been meaning to watch The Endless for awhile since it came on Netflix and finally got around to it last night. As it kind of came across in the teaser, this was a middling, somewhat light, cosmic horror movie. The premise starting out put me in mind of the 2007 math-cult film Believers . But as The Endless progresses, the cultish nature of the group in Camp Arcadia becomes less of an issue compared to the otherworldly nature of the place itself and the looming supernatural threat. In the end it reminded me a little of the premise of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy books (though I haven't seen the movie Annihlation , based on the books, so I'm not sure how closely that parallels the premise). For my tastes, the premise and situation were fairly interesting, and the special effects were appropriately understated in some spots and adequately dramatic in other bits. But the film was not without flaws: After the first couple scenes there was a definite air...