YMMV / We Summon the Darkness

• Complete Monster: Pastor John Henry Butler is a fanatical televangelist on a crusade against heavy metal, and the founder of the Daughters of the Dawn, a front he uses for taking in destitute women and brainwashing them to murder three metalheads a week, setting up their murders to look like they were committed by a Satanic cult. He's shown to have abused and brainwashed his daughter Alexis from an early age, driving her to kill her own stepmother alongside her intended targets, killing the remaining survivors of her massacre, "rescuing" her at the only to attempt to kill her for nearly blowing his cover so she'll "die a martyr". At the end, after Alexis has been killed, he pins the murders in his house on her, using her death to garner sympathy for his message.
• Critical Dissonance: The critical score of the film is a "Fresh" 69%, while the audience score is a miserable 30%. This is a pretty rare situation for light genre fare.
• Evil Is Cool: Alexis and Val, despite being Ax-Crazy Knight Templars, are delightful to watch, largely due to Alexandra Daddario and Maddie Hasson's off-kilter performances.
• Moment of Awesome: Bev standing up to Alexis and Val with a outboard motor, and later hitting Pastor Butler with it when he's strangling Alexis.
• Questionable Casting: Johnny Knoxville as a televangelist and zealous Christian cult leader? And it somehow works.

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