Movies like Azrael

“Azrael (2024) is a 2020s American folk-horror that stages ritualized silence against an encoded communal threat. It sets a narrowly constrained escape-and-pursuit around a planned sacrifice and employs frontal tableau, axial framing, and high-contrast chiaroscuro to render faith as spatial control. The film compels formal reading of religious zealotry by converting mise-en-scène and temporal restraint into moral argument.”