This movie premiered a few years ago, but it didn’t get a wide release until 2013. With a cast composing of horror movie mainstays like Barbara Crampton, and several horror directors such as Joe Swanberg and Ti West, this movie was almost destined to be a cult hit before anyone had even seen it. The hype for this movie in the horror film circles was insane, and I think a lot of it had to do with the time between the initial premiere and the time it took for it to reach the film festival circuit. It gave the movie some time to build up a legend about itself considering that very few people had a chance to see it. So now that any shmuck can watch it on Netflix, we have a chance to see it for what it is away from the massive amount of hype that this movie had built up on it’s strange journey from obscurity to your streaming device of choice. Does the movie succeed on its own merits, or is this another example of something becoming inexplicably popular for a brief moment in time? There’s only one way to find out, and that’s to keep on reading!
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