An excellent mutation of a true crime documentary and horror film about a particularly disturbing case in Southern California. In the summer of 2010, the Sheridan family is discovered murdered in their home after they go a couple of days without contacting anyone. The officers performing the welfare check come across the corpses of the family set up around the dinner table, zip-tied and taped to look to be in the middle of prayer. The occult symbol painted in blood on the ceiling has the lead detectives realizing a serial killer has returned that has haunted them for over a decade. The ritualistic slaughter of three random people (a sex worker, a bed-bound elderly man at an assisted living home and a twelve-year-old boy) and a killer who taunted the police had the detectives frustrated when the cases went cold. Now, that symbol (which the killer used to sign the note he sent to the police fifteen years earlier) is proof the monster is back and has perfected his craft. Another note arrives and more corpses prove that this nightmare is just beginning. Things get very fucked very quickly and a possible supernatural explanation points to horror on a cosmic scale. Interviews with law enforcement, experts, survivors, witnesses and people who knew the victims are tied into collected footage and crime scene photos to expertly craft a suitably disturbing experience that runs a little long but plays its baffling angle with the right amount of subdued to make for a satisfying watch. And is that a title track I hear?
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