As exciting as watching a Texas dust Bowl roll on, this has less to do with the devil and more to do with the devil's enemy and his followers who have taken things too far. It takes forever to get to that point in the movie where anything remotely spiritual or in this case sacrilegious takes place, and it's obvious from the start that this is a film with an agenda. They obviously had to start with saving money so you do not get any familiar faces or names to star in it, and the cast as a result is very bland. What you do that are a bunch of subtle hints starting with a visitor to the area crashing his car and walking along the darkened Texas Highway nights only to be taken in by a stranger in another car. When you see this visitor again, he's back in his car, burnt to death, and that poses some curious questions because of other details at the scene.
So instead of a satanistic cult, you get an extremely old time religion cult, and it is bland and dull and as lifeless as a desert. The sound recording is so bad, one of those examples of a type of sound that gives you a headache because it is so tinny and tedious and the dialogue spoken with touch blandness and at a slow pace. In fact, technically, it is even worse then the script of no real moving story, and the acting just sort of lays there. It takes more than an hour for anything involving the plot to be revealed, just a bunch of teeny details, so the viewer feels lost and uninvolved. I do not think that I could have made it through this film on the big screen and on DVD, it's easy for the viewer to make a choice, one that I utilize to give up the ghost just an hour into the film. Wretchedly dull without ever any hope of speeding it up.
So instead of a satanistic cult, you get an extremely old time religion cult, and it is bland and dull and as lifeless as a desert. The sound recording is so bad, one of those examples of a type of sound that gives you a headache because it is so tinny and tedious and the dialogue spoken with touch blandness and at a slow pace. In fact, technically, it is even worse then the script of no real moving story, and the acting just sort of lays there. It takes more than an hour for anything involving the plot to be revealed, just a bunch of teeny details, so the viewer feels lost and uninvolved. I do not think that I could have made it through this film on the big screen and on DVD, it's easy for the viewer to make a choice, one that I utilize to give up the ghost just an hour into the film. Wretchedly dull without ever any hope of speeding it up.