Thine Ears Shall Bleed

Thine Ears Shall Bleed describes a phenomenon brought upon by an overwhelming, unnatural sound in an isolated woods. I was hoping there was more to the movie than that - but there's really not. It's much too basic for the entire movie to be about arrogant evangelical protestants mistaking their imagination for "god" but that's really all the movie is about.

I was hoping there would be some kind of message that corresponds to what is going on right now with horrifically misguided racist Christian nationalism but there really isn't, other than the men being more susceptible to not recognizing evil versus the women. The wife and the daughter are extremely clear minded about the odd noise being a force for evil while the husband completely loses his mind and the son eventually follows suit.

Or conversely, it could have set the stage for a scathing criticism of the Mormon church, which was founded about the time this film is set. The fact that the preacher character calls the strange wooded area "the Garden of Eden" gave me brief hopes we'd start tearing into the bizarre beliefs of the LDS church. No such luck.

Meh.