Although really quite unpleasant for most of its running time, this gore-drenched horror-thriller at least tries to bring a little complexity to the ethical quandaries that drive the plot forward. Co-director Michael Lombardi stars as Bishop, the handsome, semi-cool pastor at a suburban American church. When he’s not leading services that feature blue-haired musicians playing Christian rock for the congregation, he’s a single father caring for his two daughters, teenager Sara (Katie Kelly) and elementary-school-aged Rebecca (Abbey Hafer). The script (by Darren Geare and Jeff Allen Geare) underscores Bishop’s faith by introducing an early scene where a rude man at a Christmas tree lot (Kevin Smith regular Brian O’Halloran) takes the tree Bishop and the girls picked out already and, instead of getting into a fight with the man, Bishop turns the other cheek.
