31 Days of Halloween 2018: Jug Face

2013, Chad Crawford Kinkle (pretty much just this) -- download

OK, WTF. A movie starts out with a hillbilly brother fucking his sister, the main character, and we are supposed to find these characters sympathetic? Yeah, whatever out of the ordinary vibe (hillbilly occult) they were going for was lost on me almost immediately.

The movie begins with an opening segment, cryptic drawings of a child depicting a backwoods family who sacrifice the local preacher to a pit full of blood. There are hints at demons or spirits implying some sort of pact. We then fall into the story, a potter possessed by something, probably The Pit, making these disturbing moonshine jugs with people's faces. Ada (above sister) finds the newly made jug with her face on it, and hides it. What does that bode? Nuttin' good.

This family / these families have lived in these woods forever -- dirty, poverty stricken and adhering to strange rituals. Ada is to be "joined" with the neighbour's ugly son but only if she is "pure", i.e. virginal. We know she isn't as was just fucking her brother, and she has to hide it or her dad will whup her. And then she finds out she is pregnant.

So, to hide her incestual promiscuity and pregnancy, she begins a conspiracy involving the potter -- a half-baked young man who obviously dotes on her, and her dottering grandfather. Oh, and the rather lucid, talkative spirit who follows her grampa around. But The Pit won't have any of that and eats one of her neighbours. Her Pa knows that this shouldn't happen and that they have upset The Pit -- so a sacrifice has to happen. The jug face was supposed to depict who would need to be sacrificed, and since the potter Dawai doesn't remember who he fired, he makes another one and just blames it on Ada's beau to be. The Pit gets its sacrifice.

It doesn't work.

Again, we are supposed to sympathize with Ada? Not only is she fucking her brother but she just got the neighbour kid killed AND Dawai the potter is being blamed. And since she pissed off The Pit, she also got her neighbour killed. And it just continues !! More blame, more death and more hungry Pit until finally the truth comes out. But w.... t.... f..... no climax, no resolution, just an ending to this current drama and the movie.

You see, you can do a peek into a seedy and despicable slice of life. But either they have to be particularly shocking or spectacularly well depicted. This was neither. Its a not a badly done movie, as the acting is decent, but nothing compelling or interesting happens in the least. And yes, I just couldn't get past the main character fucking her brother !!