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==Summary==
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Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

A prequel also exists, ''[[Resolution (2012 film)]]'', and ''[[Spring (2014 film)]]'' may also take place in the same universe.

==Details==
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* Release Date:  2018
* Country/Language:  English
* Genres/Technical:  Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Mystery
* Setting:  [[Modern]] [[California]]
* Runtime:  1 hr 51 min  
* Starring:  Callie Hernandez, Justin Benson, Emily Montague
* Director:  [[Justin Benson]], [[Aaron Moorhead]]
* Writer:   [[Justin Benson]]
* Producer/Production Co:  Justin Benson, Snowfort Pictures, Pfaff & Pfaff Productions, Love & Death Productions (LDP)
* View Trailer: ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHpWCN0byw link])
* IMDB Page:  ([https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3986820/ link])

==Ratings==
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The film portrays a world where mysterious forces capable of altering time and space toy with a collection of victims, including a bizarre UFO cult.  Though not obvious at first, this is a sequel to ''[[Resolution (2012 film)]]'', or at least a film set in the same fictional universe; like the previous film, ''They Remain'' on one level is about the mysterious experiences of two characters isolated in a strange landscape full of eccentric characters and ominous events, but on a more important level is a sensitive character sketch against a backdrop of the ups and downs of a difficult friendship troubled by a long-running unresolved conflict between the main characters.

The film begins with an epigraph by H.P. Lovecraft (his famous quote about the oldest and strongest emotion, fear of the unknown), and one of the cultist characters name-drops Lovecraft in a snippet of background conversation, referring to something that C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, and H.P. Lovecraft all wrote about, but Lovecraft "perverted"....

''Note:  This rating is not intended as a measure of quality, merely of 
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==Synopsis (SPOILERS)==
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{{spoiler|Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.  The brothers return to the UFO cult they escaped from as children before the reset after receiving a mysterious videotape that the cult claims it never sent, and soon begin experiencing strange alterations of time and space around the compound, including seeing two moons in the sky.  Long-running tension between the brothers, surfacing under the strain of life outside the cult, soon comes to ugly open arguments as the mysteries at the compound intensify, leading at last to the older brother being force to choose between fleeing the compound again before it is too late but leaving the younger brother behind, or staying with his brother and accepting a sinister fate.  The film portrays a world where mysterious forces capable of altering time and space toy with a collection of victims, including the UFO cult, and the characters from the related 2012 film ''Resolution'', forcing them all to relive the same day over and over, and forcing them to kill themselves at the end of the day to avoid a fate worse than death.  Characters can escape this doom by fleeing before the time loop resets itself the first time, but characters who have a choice may choose to stay for the illusion of eternal life and escape from reality, considering the mandatory daily death to be a small price to pay for the benefits, at least at first.}}
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==Notes==

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===Associated Mythos Elements===
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* location:  an eldritch location including a cult compound
* race:  [[Human Cultist]]s
* deity:  [[Elemental]]s (compare to [[Nyarlathotep]])


===Keeper Notes===
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* There's not much to work with here for a traditional Call of Cthulhu scenario plot or background: just a couple guys revealing and developing their character while a whole lot of weird, eerie things happen around them, like broken CoC plot hooks that never quite catch the characters (or like the direct opposite of an actual Lovecraft story where the characters are complete ciphers, driven entirely on the winds of the Lovecraftian plot elements that appear, in this story the Lovecraftian elements huff and puff but never really seem to make it very far past character interaction and development); there might be a lesson to be learned in there somewhere about how things can go right in a CoC scenario even when the investigators never take any of the Lovecraftian bait, so long as strong motivations and good role-playing drive character interaction forward with minimal Keeper interruption; there might also be something to be said here for keeping the "Mythos" elements subtle and in the background, while encouraging the main conflicts of the story to play out between player-characters, though this will require some skillful role-players to carry a lot of the scenario's weight.

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