This movie, I'd like to say, sucks, but I don't feel that is a fair comment. The acting is passable, but I really can't stand Karen blacks singing: she sounds like a strangled cat, strained and unsettling. But the story is convoluted and at times hard to follow, since a good bit of it is told in flashbacks that are thrown in in such a way that you might not realize you're watching a flashback. That's what happened to me the first time I saw this film, so it came across as quite confusing. It actually took me a couple of viewings to figure out what was wrong. I don't know what that says about me, but unfortunately that's what happened. The biggest problem with the film is I just don't buy the story: a secret society, like a Satanist cult, that has to sacrifice someone for some reason -- I never figured out what that reason was because there were too many things in the film that distracted me, like Karen Blacks singing.
Review of The Pyx
