This film is about moonshining hillbillies who worship a pit. Inside the pit there is some sort of sinister force that requires blood sacrifices as payment for the healing water it provides. The sacrifices are people chosen by the pit and through visions, are revealed to a potter who in turn makes a moonshine jug with the face of the next sacrifice. Ada is a young woman who is engaging in a sexual relationship with her brother and has learned she is pregnant but has been arranged to marry someone else. She makes her way to the potter's house and finds her face on the jug that is being fired in a makeshift kiln. Scared and unwilling to be sacrificed, she takes the jug and hides it in the forest, setting off a bloody chain reaction from the force of the pit.
I give this film props for it's attempt at making something new. The acting was decent and the settings fit the storyline well. However, I just don't feel this film. Being vague can go a long way in a film and it can even add to the creepiness but it can also leave the viewer with so many questions that the impact can not reach its potential.
I thought there was a good storyline a big part of the film but not really understanding the pit, the force behind it, the shunned ones and how it became something worshiped took too much away from what it could have been with me. And yes, I did catch the moment where there was reference made about the pit and a pox outbreak. It just wasn't enough to satisfy my curiosity or justify sacrifices.
It's not an awful film but it is just too vague for me. Had there been more to it, I could've enjoyed this much more.
I give this film props for it's attempt at making something new. The acting was decent and the settings fit the storyline well. However, I just don't feel this film. Being vague can go a long way in a film and it can even add to the creepiness but it can also leave the viewer with so many questions that the impact can not reach its potential.
I thought there was a good storyline a big part of the film but not really understanding the pit, the force behind it, the shunned ones and how it became something worshiped took too much away from what it could have been with me. And yes, I did catch the moment where there was reference made about the pit and a pox outbreak. It just wasn't enough to satisfy my curiosity or justify sacrifices.
It's not an awful film but it is just too vague for me. Had there been more to it, I could've enjoyed this much more.