Storyline

Deep in Appalachia, Pastor Lemuel Childs (Walton Goggins) presides over an isolated community of serpent handlers, an obscure sect of Pentecostals who willingly take up venomous snakes to prove themselves before God. As his devoted daughter, Mara (Alice Englert) prepares for her wedding day, under the watchful eye of Hope Slaughter (Olivia Colman), a dangerous secret is unearthed and she is forced to confront the deadly tradition of her father's church.

Plot Keywords

teenage girl, singing, blood, lie, arrest, jealousy, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, country music, clothesline, singer, hymn, kiss, bible, bridge, eating, apology, love triangle, looking out a window, dying

Short Review

In their directorial debut, Britt Poulton and Dan Madison Savage fail to show the church in a neutral light, choosing instead to lean into a "crazy cult" caricature rather than evenly portray what is already a complex, divisive religious custom.

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