Fallen (2022)

This is a nonsensical horror movie that tries and fails to combine elements of better-known horror movies. Fallen is a mess of mumbled acting, an unfocused script, and an unlikable main character. It's hard to get a sense of what this is supposed to be about. There's a priest who was an exorcist, there's something about a "Darkness" taking hold of all the major cities and causing riots, everyone is dressing like it's the Great Depression upon reaching a remote farmhouse, alien demons are lurking around, and there's a descent into cabin-feverish madness involving, among other things, an ax murder because someone was burning sage in the house. It's as pretentious as it is poorly executed, and should serve as a lesson to aspiring filmmakers on how not to make a movie.

It's a low-budget movie, and while it's possible for low-budget movies to be good, this isn't one of them. It seems to be going for some pastiche of obvious horror movie classics and the styles of certain well-known horror/thriller directors, but nothing works. It's amateurish on every level. Instead of feeling goosebumps or the heart palpitations from jump scares, actual suspense, and scares, this movie instead leaves a headache borne out of utter confusion and stress from trying to follow a story that's barely coherent.