I’d had IF on my skip list, but based on this rec I’ll bump it up to “maybe” 🙂

Anyway, I was actually popping in to say that I had seen and watched IF (2024) and that I’m happy to recommend it as a film with it’s heart firmly in the right place even when the script loses the plot & refuses to ask for directions.

Fair warning: after a decent strong opening some of the early scenes let the film down – but please don’t drop the film until you meet the Teddy Bear, as the first sequence will offer you a far better idea of what sort of movie this is.

I think overenthusiasm for committing to a “definitive opinion” is much worse than forebearance. Heretic is also a very mixed bag. (Though maybe not mixed enough: I will say that if it’s crappy half were the front half, or if I couldn’t say “crappy half” in the first place–if it’s crappiness were well-mixed, that is–I personally would have had a much harder time deciding if it’s good or not. That pretty much the *entire* last half-hour-up-to-fifty-minutes is below par makes that determination easier. But hell, if the basement were even as interestingly production-designed as the living spaces, it’d be harder.)

“Heathen” would also possibly work. I wouldn’t mind hearing some Bowie on this soundtrack.