Curse of the Sin Eater

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I had to watch this movie a few times because I thought I was missing some key points that I didn't quite understand. I still don't understand how Rick is still alive but passed on his sins. Can anyone explain that to me? Did he not pass on all his sins? Is that why he still sees the girl he shot and wouldn't his fingerprints be all over the crime scene? I believe this movie had the potential to be better. I did enjoy it in the beginning. I don't believe I would recommend this movie to anybody. Maybe I will watch this movie later on and try again to figure it out. I'm really curious now about the religious part of the sin eater now.

I was taken totally by surprise by this movie, it was excellent! The casting was perfect with the lead actor giving a gritty and realistic portrayal of a young guy having an extremely difficult time with his life! Shrimp's appearance and demeanor are disturbing, but totally realistic in showing the poverty and desperation of a working class kid on Chicago's rough South Side. I am very impressed with his performance and just about every member of the cast as well - they evoked genuine emotion on my part. The story line is based on an old Indian practice, but with a very surprising twist - the sin eater ALWAYS was headed for punishment, but after death. With this film the punishment starts on day one and includes an accumulation of sins from past sin eaters! Excellent plot, execution of that plot with fine acting in all quarters! This was a surprise delight of a movie! Congrats to all people connected with its production!!!!

Great story from and old religious belief. New Director , unknown actors , Carter Shimp Great performance, Elizabeth Laidlaw also Good, Director Justin Denton, Great Full lenght first movie, they all make it a Super great Horror movie, IF you want easy to see Great Horror, se the Scream films, IF you lika odd Great horror se Curse of the sin eater, last time I saw a Great Odd new Horror was in 1990 , it took 33 yesrs to make a new kind of Horror, I hope all the cast will keep on going. And make a follow upp to this Great film, this Will be called a Classic in the future, just like Carpenters Halloween.

Sin Eaters exist in folklore, and take on the transgressions of a deceased person. It's a notion full of possibilities for a modern horror film. But they are never realized here. There is not enough horror to call this a horror film, and not enough suspense to call it a thriller. The main inspiration seems to be Alfred Hitchcock's Rebecca, with a stern-faced housekeeper overseeing a forbidding mansion. But even this isn't fully exploited. A few setups show some promise to bring this up a notch, but the execution is lacking and the ideas are never fleshed out. Basically, it feels like a made-for-cable film on a tight budget. The acting from everyone is bland. Nothing in it is particularly memorable or noteworthy. It gets three stars because there is lots worse on streaming services, but there is also lots better.

Firstly a down and out gets to be a billionaire from eating a meal off his dead body. He stays at his friends house on the sofa and gets a job on a wealthy estate and hurts himself gets inside the house tries to steal some money gets offered millions to take on someone else's sins and then doesn't enjoy the wealth, starts getting depressed and seeing dead bodies. This isn't a horror film this is a Disney film I couldnt stop laughing at the concept of how this film was made. He then shoots his friend because he saw a dead person then decides to give his wealth to his friend who asked him for help and of course he said yes. The ending was rubbish 6 months later his friend is in the same position, what a joke please please don't make part 2, save your money and don't watch this crap.

This was a pretty descent movie.until the end. It seems like any author or screenwriters can not make a good ending for movies anymore during the movie the guy dies then the other guys eats dinner off his dead body--signs the contract and all the sins the original guy had is his plus others who have signed onto this contract for many years.. the ending made no sense what so ever--it goes off with him next to a tree relaxed and not realizing his sin he committed was still there-- BUT!! The contract says all of his sins becomes the new sineaters sins---so why is he seeing her at the end? Good question.

Curse of the Sin Eater is a pretty original making of a historical ritual. According to Wikipedia: "A sin-eater is a person who consumes a ritual meal in order to spiritually take on the sins of a deceased person. The food was believed to absorb the sins of a recently dead person, thus absolving the soul of the person." However, this movie takes a historical idea and gives it very unique twists and turns. You need however to fight the urge to skip forward to see how it ends. Elizabeth Laidlaw and Larry Yando give a masterful performance, and the cast of characters blends quite well. If you manage to predict the amazing ending then congratulate yourself, and buy yourself a prize. I hope there will be a sequel.

When I sat down to watch the 2024 movie "Curse of the Sin Eater" from director Justin Denton, I had never actually heard about it. But the movie's cover proved interesting enough, and the fact that it was a horror movie that I hadn't already seen, and given my fascination with the horror genre, of course I needed no persuasion to sit down and watch the movie. I literally had no idea what I was in for here, so writers Adam Davis and Will Corona Pilgrim essentially had every opportunity to impress and entertain me. The narrative is a slow burn. You need to venture well over halfway through the movie before things start to happen. And truth be told, I have to admit that my interest in the story was waning at that point. So writers Adam Davis and Will Corona Pilgrim sort of dropped the ball and never got it back on track. The cast ensemble in the movie were all actors and actresses that I wasn't familiar with. And that is actually something that spoke in favor of the movie, as I enjoy watching unfamiliar talents on the screen. And I will say, that despite a subpar script and storyline, then the acting performances in "Curse of the Sin Eater" were fair. Visually then you're not in for a grand experience in horror cinema. There were some simplistic special effects throughout the course of the movie, but it was hardly sufficient to boost the movie up and out of the mediocre lane. My rating of director Justin Denton's 2024 movie "Curse of the Sin Eater" lands on a three out of ten stars.

Why should Robert Eggers have all the historical fun? Director Justin Denton has unearthed a pretty obscure historical practice that (apparently) was in use in England, Scotland and Wales through the 19th century: The estate of a wealthy decedent could pay someone of lower means to eat a meal off the body of the decedent, thereby transferring the sins of the dead person to the payee. The rub, of course, is that in a Christian society, the payee not only carried the burden of sin into the next world, but now was something of a social pariah in this world as well. The moral economy of this practice would seem to be rather rich and interesting. And the fact that Denton chose to create a film around that practice deserves more than a little credit. "CSE" is not just another haunted house flick. The two primary actors in the film are Carter Shimp ("Rick Malone") and Antonette Morro ("Elizabeth Laidlaw"). Malone plays a young construction worker who just happens to land a temporary gig at the palatial Chicago-area estate of "George Drayton." Malone harms himself on the job site, and it is Morro who escorts Malone into the mansion to clean himself up. Malone proves himself to be something less than 100% honest; but this only serves to intrigue the dying Drayton. Drayton makes Malone the titular offer; and it is Morro who subsequently shepherds Malone through both the terms of the "deal" and the consequences of that deal. So far, so good; and the first 1/3 of CSE is quite engaging. Where matters start to falter is in what follows. The "consequences" of the deal are often literal and religious: literal hauntings of sins past that, in turn, cause Malone to unravel in somewhat predictable ways (drinking, etc). However, with one exception, it is not clear what those sins are or why they would cause Malone to become increasingly unmoored psychologically. There are also several sub-plots that are given only cursory treatment: Malone's lapsed religious faith; his relationship to his (now deceased) mother; and his relationship to a former girlfriend "Tanya." The last of these would seem to be particularly important in view of what transpires in the last part of the film (though, again, it is difficult to piece together). All of this is to say is that I was expecting a more metaphorical and "post-Christian" treatment of sin eating (if we may call it that). The Japanese kaidan and onryo films, for example, famously use ghosts and hauntings as only slightly veiled metaphors for exploring the dire moral consequences of fraud, revenge, infidelity and so forth. The central moral element in CSE - a devil's bargain of worldly power in return for one's sense of self - would seem to be similarly rich as a thematic matter. But the consequences of that bargain are too often engaged as the monster-of-the-week variety. Bottom line is that this is a very well-made, well-acted movie. I just wish the writing and thematic focus had been a bit sharper.