In Montreal, a man witnesses a woman fall to her death. That
woman is Elizabeth Lucy (Karen Black), a heroin addicted prostitute. Detective Pierre
Paquette (Christopher Plummer) is assigned to the case. As he
uncovers a strange plot around her death, the suspects begin dying before they
can reveal much of anything. We follow Elizabeth’s past and see how she came to be
entangled in an occult conspiracy. Past and present converge, as the police
slowly uncover the dark forces behind the murders.
The Pyx is a grim, serious film. It opens with the death of
Elizabeth and tells its story by jumping back to the time leading up to her
death whle inter-cutting with the present as Pierre tries to discover what
happened. The end result is that we are watching a woman’s downward spiral towards
her inevitable demise. It’s heavy stuff, punctuated by a choral soundtrack, and the
grey weather of Montreal. The story is a very slow burn with the supernatural
elements never coming to the forefront until near the end. When it does come, it drips with reserved yet eerie menace. Despite the potentially
confusing time jumps in the story, the actual plot is simple enough to keep
things coherent. The film does move a little too slowly, and I think twenty minutes
could probably have been trimmed from the finished product without harming anything. If you can handle some low key doom, The Pyx is a minor treat in the
Satanic horror sub-genre.
Today's Really Quite Tasty Sugar Rush:
Pyx Styx
Today's Really Quite Tasty Sugar Rush:
Pyx Styx
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