While Maud’s faith is the driving force of this ambiguous and unsettling horror movie, Glass avoids the usual religious horror tropes in large part because Maud is new to religion and collects bits of it that she likes. When speaking to Bloody Disgusting about her film, Glass shared, “I wasn’t interested in telling the story of a young woman who gets embroiled in a community of religious people. Technically yes, there are Christian building blocks, but she’s essentially created her own. It’s as much about self-care and survival and making sense of the world as about faith, I guess. The more she becomes detached from reality, the more it becomes dangerous.”