private detective   bar   based on novel   beating   grenade   stabbing   family relationships   kidnapping   brother sister relationship   alcoholic   dancing   forest   blood   corpse   new york city   unsubtitled foreign language   fire   urban setting   flashback   bare chested male   diner   ransom   dismemberment   blood spatter   severed leg   character repeating someone else's dialogue   church   cell phone   drug dealer   car crash   severed finger   strangled to death   religion   god   ambiguous ending   bully   brother brother relationship   butcher knife   alcoholism   high school student   high school   false prophet   van   freeze frame   brother   cult   medicine   loneliness   child in peril   tape recorder   stabbed to death   year 1991   death of protagonist   apartment building   bound and gagged   allegory   body in a trunk   drawing   arms dealer   sniper rifle   fake identity   axe   private investigator   death of friend   bar fight   bloody body of child   garrote   drug addict   breaking a mirror   shot in the side   praying   tyrant   deal with the devil   shot in the eye   death of wife   multiple stabbings   thrown into the sea   taser   body landing on a car   maze   stabbed in the shoulder   prisoner   principal   hiding   lamb   medical experiment   experiment gone wrong   murder of wife   sister   handcuffed to a pipe   being followed   detention   nude painting   true believer   human sacrifice   environmentalism   ex cop   halloween party   animal sacrifice   drinking blood   deity   goddess   groundskeeper   burning woman   mental torture   alcoholics anonymous   tyranny   body in a dumpster   paganism   dead brother   dea agent   homeless teenager   throat cut   year 1999   man wearing towel   pregnant girl   child with gun   town on fire   cult leader   dead son   year 1905   greenwood brooklyn new york city   reference to y2k   reformed alcoholic   sickle cell anemia   dog tags   man in towel   army veteran   pumpkin carving   preaching   puritanism   cultist   burning cross   animal birth   animal drowning   barren land   bloody water   breaking the laws of god and nature   brother rescues sister   burning houses   deformed animal   demiurge   doubting thomas   draining blood   drilling into brain   eating a baby   embodiment of mother nature   enslaved god   enslaved goddess   extreme torture   false utopia   father beating daughter   father killing daughter   female demiurge   fingers cut off   force feed   history repeats itself   human attacked by a plant   imprisoned god   imprisoned goddess   innocent killing   insane cult   insane cultist   kidnapped sister   locked in a box   losing one's faith   man wearing a mask   mother nature   natural exploitation   poisoned harvest   possessed woman   religious allegory   restoring one's faith   secluded community   sex before marriage   shotgun murder   slow death   toxic crops   zealotry   man eater   dog   military police   cemetery   death   hospital   murder   shot to death   soldier   reference to sam spade   hit with a baseball bat   brooklyn new york city   brutality   gay slur   explosion   handcuffs   suicide   knife   sadism   scene during opening credits   written by director   bulletproof vest   kicked in the face   loss of father   loss of mother   violence   husband wife relationship   loss of friend   shootout   slow motion scene   investigation   rain   falling to death   gun   machine gun   photograph   punched in the face   shot in the leg   shot in the chest   self sacrifice   torture   library   wheelchair   psychopath   pay phone   marijuana   dripping blood   shot in the head   death of mother   death of father   suspicion   topless female nudity   waitress   death of child   neo noir   pistol