Watched all eight episodes of Spain's Feria: The Darkest Light. Twenty-three cadavers are discovered in a shallow lake outside an abandoned mine in a small village in Andalusia. They were members of the gnostic Cult of Light, led by the mother of young sisters Eva and Sofia. Now that their mother is dead, the living members expect Sofia to lift the five veils, which her mother failed to do, and open the portal that will bring hell into the world.  

The movie does not leave the audience second-guessing, for it unfolds in an unusually straightforward manner. We are shown everything, including naked bodies. As early as the first episode we are shown a supernatural creature inside the mine. A priest is murdered in the town church and we are shown, from the very beginning, who the murderer is. We see who the cult members are, what they do, and what they hope to achieve. All very unlike the furtive plots of Shyamalan's The Village and Flanagan's Midnight Mass, both also set in small villages. The difference is, while those other two movies have stereotype characters, this one has two-dimensional ones much lacking in biography and historicity, so that, ultimately, we don't really care about them.

_Feria_ has a lot of male and female nudity, frontal and otherwise, perhaps a little too perverse for comfort. But that could be its saving grace, because I was not too thrilled about the furless kitty cats, the creepy-crawly seaweed, and the diabolic reindeer, though I wish I had some of that orichalcum jewelry in my collection. How did those ever get mixed up with a gnostic group in the first place? In all, the Halloween and carnival horror tunnel images point to one and the same thing, that anything Satanic is decadent, derivative, unoriginal, and almost always the product of the illiterate.

I do like the ending--it is like the ending of Polanski's Rosemary's Baby.

Many questions are unanswered, though Most importantly, my question in relation to all four movies remains: Why do the most diabolic events happen only to Christians?