Nineteen-year-old David Warren has spent the last year haunted by a single night. A reckless search for the supernatural ended with his friend losing an arm to an impossible beast. Now, guilt drives him back into the abandoned corners of Odder in search of answers and forgiveness. Instead, he finds something else. After a violent encounter with a monstrous creature, David begins to change. He’s becoming something frightening, a creature of the night with transformative powers and a hunger he barely understands. His new condition ties him to a dangerous and alluring woman, drawing David into a forbidden world he was never meant to see.
As David struggles to control what he’s becoming, he finds himself the target of a powerful, dangerous figure. Tony Hart, a ruthless industrialist, is hunting for a mysterious spellbook that could doom everyone he loves. The truth leads back to a dark ritual performed by people closer to him than he realizes. With Tony closing in, a relentless monster hunter on his trail, and ancient magic threatening to tear the town apart, David must uncover Odder’s buried secrets before the night claims him completely. If the spellbook isn’t found, the ritual will finish what it started, and Odder won’t survive the darkness.
Overall, this was a fairly enjoyable and likeable enough feature. The centralized storyline, focusing on the exploits around this town and the general introduction to what's going on long before the series of incidents that are introduced here, signaling something is going on around them, offers the kind of main setup that is fairly immersive at getting what's necessary. Once the shift switches into the later scenes with the supernatural specter that takes precedence over everything once it gets loose, there's a marked shift to the fantasy style more so than outright horror, with the way it takes the style here, which helps to make the action feel more intriguing. As everything comes together here, involving a fun main cast that we follow in this bizarre town that everything is set in, there's some great work here to get everyone some moments to shine and become instantly identifiable over time.
This is all brought together with a solid enough mystery that evolves throughout. With the first series of clues appearing regarding this ritual that was conducted in the cabin, there's some fun, likable factors here going around trying to make sense of the paranormal threats involved here, as everything tends to lead into the other. There's a fun level of detail here with the connections being made here and trying to piece together what each of these elements means when they all come together to help spell out the series of encounters that come about here. There's a bit of the finale that feels incredibly underwhelming regarding how this is set up to continue a franchise rather than feel like a self-contained story, as it has to build up interest in the rest of the series coming up, but it’s mostly a minor quibble that does stick out just enough to be enough to hold this down.
4.5/5
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