The 'Ready or Not' star plays a girl on the run from flesh-eating monsters in a wordless genre offering from director E.L. Katz and writer Simon Barrett.
, toss them into a cauldron, add some vague references to Satan, pour in several buckets of blood, boil at a high temperature while stirring frequently, and you’ll wind up with a strange brew that tastes like the new high-concept horror flick,Picked up by Paramount Global’s resurrected distribution arm, Republic Pictures — which once released movies like Orson Welles’— this familiar if well-executed genre programmer dishes out enough gory thrills to attract some eyeballs on streaming.
To justify the film’s wordless narrative, an opening title card explains that speech has been outlawed ever since the “Rapture,” which we assume to be some kind of apocalypse, occurred many years earlier. Humans have been left to wander a dark forest populated by bloodsucking humanoids who, as the title suggests, have some connection to the angel of death from Christian lore — a theory compounded by the primitive frescoes we see painted inside an old church run by a creepy priestess .
But Azrael manages to escape — which she does in nearly every scene — making her way to a small community that lives in-style abandon among barbed wire and rusted old automobiles . Those folks are all out to get Azrael as well, prompting the poor girl to keep escaping until she can escape no more. Since nobody ever mutters a word you never learn much about Azrael or anyone else, which means you don’t necessarily care when the zombies occasionally rip their heads off and suck the blood out of them, like they’re gulping down Slurpees. Silence is both the film’s main asset and its principal limitation, creating moments of suspense but also leaving us in the dark, to the point that it feels more like a gimmick than anything substantial.
Katz has a talent for staging fight and chase sequences, which is basically all that happens here, teaming up with Estonian DP Mart Taniel to get plenty of visual mileage out of a $12-million budget. The forest setting nonetheless feels a tad redundant — not unlike the plot itself — andWeaving gives an intense and taxing physical performance that requires her to run around a lot, or else to scream her lungs out without making any noise whatsoever.
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