A band discovers a rift that opens up the gates of hell and causes people to hear it to explode.
One of the most disappointing films of 2026 has a great premise, a good cast and some of the absolute best moments in any horror film in the last few years, yet some how manages to be a film that resulted in multiple walk outs at the Tribeca Festival press screening.
This film is a mess and it's all the fault of the director who has created a film that doesn't know what it wants to be. Is it a comedy? Is it a gore film? Is it a horror film? Your guess is as good as mine. Moments of horror are destroyed by a joke. Its frustrating since you can't get a handle on what the film wants to be (and while the animation overlays are cool they distract big time)
Damning things further is the script that doesn't have holes but the biggest black holes in the universe. Things happen... because. Later things happen that don't connect to what went before... but that's okay. Things happen that make no sense. They show up at a venue and no one is there. No one, not the owner, not staff, no one. What does the band do? they set up and play. Why? Just because. It is something that no one would do. The plot is like the character who turns knobs marked "do not touch" to adjust the sound but no one is playing so what is he adjusting? The narrative keeps being adjusted to account for things that aren't happening.
NOTHING MAKES SENSE.
And everything happens in a vacuum. We only see the characters the film has actors for. I mean there is no one else, no on on the streets when they are driving, in their concert venues, no where. Its as if they had no money to even steal background shots of people waking down a random street or a car or two driving on a road.
What a waste.
Yes I love the images of the other dimensions and the moments of terror they don't fuck up, but mostly this film is nothing.
Only recommended for filmmakers who want to see the bits that work so they can steal them.
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