Wellness retreat meets body-snatching horror — your yoga instructor's about to get WAY too hands-on.
Summer, unhappy with her boyfriend, receives a mysterious email inviting her out to a spiritual obstacle course. Summer gathers her four friends, each battling a dilemma of their own, to drive to the Sedona Desert, where they are promised this “vortex” will improve their lives. They embark on these courses with the help of their uncanny guide Hermes, who leads them into a series of unusual practices. Little do they know they are being monitored by mysterious hooded entities, eager to take over their bodies.
Practical Effects
Sedona landscapes that look genuinely unholy.
Acting
Joe Filippone's Hermes: unsettling wellness guru perfection.
Director
Dana Kippel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sedona's actual 'vortex' tourism gets weaponized here — the film exploits real New Age pilgrimage culture for horror, much like how The Wicker Man twisted folk traditions.
Director Dana Kippel also plays Summer, pulling a triple threat as writer-director-lead — allegedly shot in 12 days during actual Sedona heat waves.
US
