Documentarian Keith Evans digs into an Egyptian-inspired Northern Californian cult called The Osiris Collective when his ex-girlfriend disappears after joining. The cult’s new leader, Anubis, invites him to the rural compound for an interview and a battle of wits begins to play out with the difficult weirdo and unraveling what corruption has set in after Anubis took the reigns and the grim reveal of what the volatile man’s endgame is. Mockumentary, found footage lovliness builds at the proper deliberate pace until slipping into a slight bit of insanity that hits like a hammer to your expectations. Even working with a strained budget, a solid cast and set design has it feeling far more professional than expected. Chad Westbrook Hinds could have very easily slipped into a performance that felt forced but he plays his charismatic and psychopathic character to perfection. A short runtime keeps it clipping and feeling pretty damn efficient, never wasting footage on just dragging shit out for the sake of getting everything to 90 minutes. It’s solid, not perfect, slightly disturbing and just different enough to make it noticeable.
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