St. Agatha

This is a bold, broad portrait of a secret society, left alone by the government to rule their own roost by fear.

St. Agatha may take too long to get going, but once the film is up and running it's perverse, overheated fun.

St. Agatha is less overtly gory and supernatural-oriented than most efforts of its ilk, but it provides plenty of chilling, if slow-moving atmospherics and strong performances.

Kern and Hennesy deliver powerhouse performances that leave you gripping your seat and holding your breath. Bousman knows how to ramp up the tension in measured strokes, barely allowing the audience time to gasp for more air.

The film as a whole ends up feeling a bit long and this may lose some people but the ending is absolutely worth sticking around as well as the evolution of Sabrina Kern as Mary from her meek start to the end where she changes in the ways she needs.

I love how much it made me think. And, ultimately, that is what movies should do.

... Bousman didn't know what he wanted, so he threw a bunch of stuff at the wall to see what stuck.

...a perverse, creepy, and slickly shot slice of modern day nunsploitation.

A suffocating and monotonous slow-boil Southern-gothic thriller.

For all of the foreboding visuals, once we work on what's happening, we're less afraid than impatient.