Hell is Empty (2021)

Hell is Empty (2021). Hell is Empty: Directed by Jo Shaffer. With Meredith Antoian, Aya, Nia Farrell, Travis Mitchell. A self-styled messiah initiates a teenage runaway into his cult of sister-wives. Her rebellious nature upends the community, triggering a bloody uprising against the patriarch.

“Hypnotized by the period detail of The Yellow Wallpaper, (2021-also reviewed) I decided to continue peeling away at the line-up of the Cine-Excess Film Festival, by discovering how empty hell is.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eView on the film:u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eArriving to the island where the one Male figure is also the lone figure with power to rule over all the inhabitants, co-editor/co-writer (with Adam Desantes) / director Jo Shaffer u0026amp; cinematographer Alex Halstead casts a wide-net eerie atmosphere of unsettling stilted wide-shots gazing at the horror inflicted on women who question Edu0026#39;s cult on the landu003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eStriking the fear of God into anyone who dares to question his iron-fist rule over the family, Travis Mitchell gives an excellent fire and brimstone performance as Ed.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eDrawing sharp thumbnail sketches for each teenage runaway, the screenplay by Shaffer and Desantes neatly combines isolated community/ cult chills with Edu0026#39;s patriarch grip on power, which the teenage runaway girls fight to reveal is empty like Hell.”