Sator

Adam (Gabriel Nicholson) lives alone in the forest, looking for signs of "Sator", a supernatural entity that speaks to and through his grandmother, Nani (June Peterson) according to her.

The existence (or not) of Sator has cast a shadow over three generations of the family. Adam stalks the woods by day and listens to Nani's recorded ramblings and reviews her Sator-dictated writings by night.

No good will come of this.

Another microbudget Indie horror, this looks at the generational influence of a cult and while it's not billed as found footage the large amount of viewing recorded material and flashback makes it a close cousin.

There's a lot of sweeping scenery that turns to stabbing torch beams in the dark at night. The cabin is endlessly gloomy and the whole project shoots for enigmatic but hits murky.

Staying on top of what's happened and happening requires you to pay close attention and fill in what gaps you can. It's definitely a subtitles on one if you can do that as some of it is really mumbly and some dialogue that matters is being said in the next room.

If you boil down the elements, nothing much happens and it feels like a long time passes while doing so but this helps with a general feeling of slow doom.

Not bad and notable for dealing with the idea of malign influence over time but only a 6/10 because it struggled to maintain my attention, especially in the middle and if you don't pay full attention it quickly turns into "shit happens for no reason" because the reasons are very obliquely referred to or hinted at.