The protagonist seems distant from those around her and generally dissatisfied with her circumstances. There’s a sense of something old or perhaps prohibited at play. Things are getting odd, and they seem genuinely unsettling. Disturbing occurrences are happening, and it looks like the threat might be expanding. Confronting beings rooted in folklore or mythology is frightening, and I sympathize with the characters…

It seems inevitable that after seeing Mandarin and Spanish in films with dual audio tracks, another language would appear – and here’s Hindi, used to some degree. Beyond that, however, this is just an ordinary story about a young woman, "Sam" (Megan Suri), struggling to reconcile her heritage with contemporary American viewpoints. This inner conflict, along with a broken jar of preserves, seems to be enabling a pecul…