Iva, a troubled teenager trapped between an abusive stepfather and a distant, deaf mother, finds unexpected salvation in a mysterious boy claiming to be Lucifer, a fallen angel sent to guide her. As she wrestles with faith, madness, and destiny, she is trained for a chilling mission: to assassinate a powerful American televangelist hiding a sinister truth beneath his holy image.
Acting
Mickey Rourke's sweaty, terrifying televangelist meltdown
Cinematography
Sofia's crumbling Soviet brutalism as teenage hellscape
Direction
Edwards commits fully to the unhinged premise
Director
Ben Charles Edwards
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ben Charles Edwards shot this in Bulgaria standing in for the American South, creating an uncanny nowhere-land that mirrors Iva's unmoored reality.
The film weaponizes televangelist aesthetics pioneered by Bakker and Swaggart, but twists them into horror by making the congregation's faith literally weaponized through Iva.
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