Offering to the Storm
Offering to the Storm is part three of the Baztán Trilogy, following The Invisible Guardian and The Legacy of the Bones. The film is set in the small town of Elizondo in the Baztán valley in northern Spain next to border with France near the Atlantic coast. The mood is creepy, it rains all the time, and while the series started with a dead baby, the body count really piles up in this installment.
It seems to be pretty well produced, but I think it might help if we had watched all three in close succession. Actually, I'm not sure if we even did watch The Legacy of the Bones. In any case they drop a bunch of characters names without really telling us who they are. Presumably if we had recently watched the other two films, we would know.
The gist of it is that there is a secret cult operating in the valley that sacrifices babies for the promise of wealth, power and glory, and it seems to deliver. Not quite sure how that happens. Perhaps if you are willing to sacrifice a child, no other form of abasement scares you and you become willing to do all kinds of evil shit. They don't put it that way, they seem to think it's magical. Another mechanism that occured to me is that possibly the cult leader is a demented psychopathic billionaire who just enjoys running people through this horrific initiation. Once they get past that, they become part of his business network which leads to the aforementioned wealth and power. Anyway, the cult's indoctrination is very effective, all those who get found out commit suicide, and they murder any outsider who gets too close. So when the cops start closing in, bodies start falling. I don't think they ever got the cult leader.
So it's creepy, and it's well produced, but it just didn't get me in the feels, you know? Maybe the people are just too different, it subtle ways mind you, than what I am used to, but I just couldn't connect to any of them.
Cult is just an extreme form of a pack.
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