Our Take

Messiah of Evil (1973) - This is a waking nightmare that tastes like salt water and impending doom. A woman searching for her father finds a coastal town where the residents wait on the beach for a dark, blood-red moon to rise. The grocery store and cinema sequences are absolute masterclasses in slow-burn, surrealist dread that will make your skin crawl off your body. It’s a Lovecraftian trip soaked in 70s technicolor despair, proving that the most terrifying thing in the world is a town that has collectively decided to stop being human.