There is much that is unpleasant that
happens over the course of this movie the cattle - call interviews for half salary, for starters but in the end it comes down to silver linings.
Alternatively, we also get to witness the fateful flight itself as shown from about 19 different angles chopped up and spliced out
over the
course of the
movie, whether it's the actual flight as it
happened or any number
of reenactments that fastidiously put us through the same motions.
Since,
of course, The Lords
of Salem is essentially a horror
movie, it will ultimately go the way
of genre and privilege the supernatural
over the rational, but before that
happens, much like the films that it so lovingly apes — Stanley Kubrick's The Shining, Roman Polanski's Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant, William Friedkin's The Exorcist — it will flex and stretch its ambiguities to uncanny breaking point.