It is not the deer demon that is frightening, but the truth within. A girl wakes up in a room and the doctors say her name is Anne. Suddenly, the face of the girl spontaneously changes, and the consciousness remains the same. Anne talks, meets other girls, who are also called Anne, and whose appearances change over time. When night falls, the girls are hunted by a demon-deer with a hammer in his hands. Fruitful attempts to escape, escape from the monster, lead Anne to understand the fact that she is inside a maze from which there is no escape.
In this film, I saw a parallel with some other films and TV series, the closest being Triangle and Identification. I would even call the script of this film a mix of the scripts of these two films. And one creepy scene, where many Anne do not react to each other and are in a kind of catatonic delirium, reminded me of similar ideas from the series “Legion”.
We must give the filmmakers credit - the movie was shot qualitatively, it is never a thrash horror. The psychology of the film is frightening, this is what the film is terrible about, this is the horror film, and not in the image of a deer demon and not in the scarecrows associated with hunting different Annes. Some scenes that emphasize the virtuality, the staged world of Anne, turned out to be especially unexpected and therefore uncomfortable for the mind, for perception. I haven’t seen much of this in any fantastic films at all.
Throughout the viewing, the viewer will try to understand what is really happening, and it is unlikely that he will succeed. The closer to the end, the more awareness comes, and in the climax all the cards are opened to the viewer, and now everything learned becomes understandable, understandable and logical, but at the same time no less depressing and creepy.
And I remember the passages of Goethe’s poem, written more than two centuries ago:
“The king of the forest flashed in my eyes, the king of the forest wants to catch up with us! Here it is: I'm stuffy, I'm hard to breathe.
The deer demon catches up with Anne again and again, and the girl has no chance to resist. Will Anne eventually win the game, breaking the cycle of death and suffering? To do this, the girl will need to understand who she really is.
10 out of 10