Antlers (2021)

In an inactive mine in central Oregon, Scott Haze and his partner are cooking meth when a creature kills the partner and possesses Haze and his young son who was waiting in a truck outside the mine. Fast forward three weeks, his older son’s teacher Keri Russell notices his change in behavior and begins to suspect there is abuse in the household, projecting her own childhood experiences onto the family. The film really struggles with finding a basic premise. Along with physical abuse, themes on environmental destruction, eastern Native lore, and poverty are all thrown in to the mix without any real commentary being made on any of them. The acting is pretty solid and the visual effects are uniquely creepy, which somewhat make up for the slapdash plot.