Director: Mark H. Rapaport
Year: 2026
Country: United Kingdom/USA
Alternate Titles: N/A
Genre: Supernatural
Plot:
Arriving at a small church, eccentric twins appeal to the priest stationed there, that he needs to decide which of them will be ordained as the Holy Spirit and take their rightful place alongside God, forcing him into a deranged idea, trying to figure out who’s actually supposed to follow through.
Review:
This was a pretty solid and likable enough genre effort. Among the better features with this one is the immensely engaging and likable setup that provides this with an intriguing storyline to see play out. The main concept here, involving the siblings arriving at the church, forcing their way into the life of the priest and beginning to force him to undertake the strange mission of figuring out which one of them is the third part of the Holy Trinity to serve alongside God and Jesus, sets up the kind of unique starting point that allows this to go off in unexpected ways to reach its conclusion. This is handled through a series of tests and conversations here that try to prove who’s more worthy of the status, going from purity discussions, faith-based conversations, and other distinct interactions that focus on the innate status of their request that bring about their true purpose. With him being far more innocent and having to be talked into performing the actions as he did, which is a stark contrast to how her more street-wise attitude tends to appear, it creates an intriguing set of mind games throughout here regarding what’s going on and who’s really going to be the chosen one.
However, as much fun as it is to see this play out, the whole thing is severely undermined by the inherent one-note nature of this one, where it has so little deviation from these scenes that it becomes quite bland and predictable after a while. The series of conversations and interviews that take place here, whether in the secrecy of the church or the hearse he owns parked nearby, tend to become rather pedestrian after awhile when all they do is go through the motions of trying to either sexually tempt the sister or corrupt the brother into carrying out devious actions that are fine to see play out at first, but becomes quite repetitive the longer it goes on. When this becomes the only real type of content that is showcased throughout here, with the only deviation from these sequences being the flashbacks to some other scenes showing the feminine figure birthing them in a series of avant-garde sequences that have an idea behind them but just come off so bizarrely they lose all meaning. It also ends up causing this to go on way too long for its own good, making for enough here to knock this one down.
Overview: **.5/5
An intriguing enough concept more than anything, there are some fun aspects here that keep this one going, which are undone by a slew of drawbacks that keep this one down overall. Those with a curiosity in this style or who are fine with the issues on display will have the most to like here, while most others out there should heed caution.
This review ran as part of our coverage of the 2026 edition of the Fantasia Film Festival. Click here to follow the rest of our articles about the festivities!
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