‘“And there was someone outside the house, crawling or something. It sounded like someone was rubbing themselves against the wall, or dragging themselves down the side of the house. (…) I could hear these voices too. Tiny voices. They were tiny elderly voices. Old people. A crowd of them. They were in the room somewhere, like in a corner that I couldn’t see, or in the air above the bed. It was horrid.”’
‘Every time the women appeared and she tried to see where the faint phosphorescence bled from, she would find herself moving around in a circle, on the ceiling, and unable to get back inside her body down below. When she tried to work out how far away her body was from the ceiling, she found herself staring down at four people sitting at the black table with their hands raised into the air.’
‘(…) his art was to act as a pure and sudden glimpse of the ‘other’, of what was only ever seen in dreams, or in times of euphoria or mental disintegration.’
Deze tweede aflevering is het de beurt aan Moder een heidense god, die zowel erg creepy is als er mega origineel uitziet, en die je tegenkomt in de Zweedse bossen in de film The Ritual (2017).
The Ritual is een echte creature feature, met een prachtig wezen dat de ster is in deze film.
Het boek The Ritual van Adam Nevill uit 2011 vond ik een erg enge en sterke horror, die horror van verschillende kanten laat komen en een onderliggend maatschappelijk thema heeft. Nu is dit boek verfilmd. In dit artikel kan je lezen hoe de film en het boek zich tegenover elkaar verhouden. Welke is enger, beter, of meer de moeite waard?
