Oklahoma director Mickey Reece’s films can be maddening as hell.
It’s a purely personal stance and wholly original formula that, with Agnes—his most successful bid for mainstream acceptance yet—he refuses to back down on, only to deliver one of the year’s most heart-wrenching takes on, of all things, the diabolical nunsploitaiton genre.
When asked by the religious higher-ups to check out a strange case of Satanic occupation in a rather emotionally cold convent, the disgraced Father Donaghue (Ben Hall) and the novice seminary graduate Benjamin (Jake Horowitz) find the brutally overtaken Agnes (Hayley McFarland), a young nun that spits blood and shouts profanities like the best demons in Hell would.