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Can we say that we have crucified an infinite number of films about the sects, about the fanatics and about a new God to be venerated? Yes, we can say it. And here, therefore, we are not dealing with a new subject or even with a good title.
Fortunately, the director of this "The Apostle" is Gareth Evans, who confirms as interesting and above all never banal director. The Welsh, after the exploit of the two "The Raid", takes a little break in which he must have decided to deepen the horror genre already tasted in 2013 with the encyclopedic "V / H / S / 2".
Evans who brings with him the faithful Matt Flannery (who does an excellent job in cinematography) and who also writes the story, takes us into a horror with a rather critical moral towards modern society. A horror that has a great crescendo and that scares without having a monster. Well, the monsters are actually there but they are certainly not those of the imagery of terror movies.
A convincing film but with an excessive length that threatens to ruin all the good intentions of is creator but fortunately the crescendo that goes hand in hand with an endless trail of blood and torture, which will please lovers of the most extreme kinds, saves all.
Thomas Richardson (Dan Stevens) embarks on a remote island where lives a community made up of people who want to live freely venerating their new God. Thomas's mission is to pay a ransom to free his prisoner sister. The inhabitants who venerate a divinity of the land, are part of a rigid society of fanatics that is gradually discovered by the protagonist. In fact, Thomas discovers the secrets of this violent community, which does not worship an imaginary God, but a true divinity that is kept segregated and nourished by blood and human sacrifices. A Goddess of the fertility of nature but one day rebels and causes the island a big famine.
Madness increases, the community implodes, but the Earth regenerates by finding a new God that perhaps others will exploit until death.
A clear criticism, as the director told to corruption and violence against nature.