As happens with a lot of slow-burn films, once you turn the corner, there’s no going back.  We get one creepy character captured by the locals around whom rules and stipulations are proposed.  This is fun.  Then we’re told “what’s really going on” and the rules and stipulations seem to disappear in favor of a low-budget attempt at a big-budget ending.  It’s managed well enough, but the change in pacing makes the film’s sparseness at the beginning seem amateur instead of purposefully paced…

You’d say “you don’t say,” and maybe you’d be right, but I’d disagree with you anyway ’cause I totally say it