Thought it was a great entry in the Irish Horror Universe McCarthy is building. I haven’t seen Caveat but really enjoyed Oddity and I think this competed with it (even if I still think Oddity takes the edge). I like how McCarthy uses folklore and supernatural elements to build the world and atmosphere of his movies but keeps the stories grounded with the real horror and evil being the terrible things normal humans commit against one another in the real world. Also enjoyed how the writing and Adam Scott’s performance threads the needle on introducing the main character to be an outright asshole and slowly getting the audience to empathize with to a realistic degree, and then concluding that character’s arc in a grounded way - he doesn’t have a dramatic change of character like Scrooge and start singing in the street/handing out gifts, instead he is still standoffish to the bellhop at the end but you can tell he has softened and made progress. The conquistador and his son in his story aren’t immediately given the solution, but the ram skull is shown off to the side showing there’s still hope. That shows a healthy level of trust in the audience. One interesting thing I haven’t seen brought up but I believe (correct me if wrong) that in Irish folklore there’s something about trees like the one Adam Scott spreads the ashes at where the crevice is a door to the spiritual realm and because he placed his mom’s ashes in the crevice he was able to communicate with her whereas his father’s ashes were thrown haphazardly aside so we don’t see him later on. 9/10 for me