"For the Triumph of Evil" rushes into its 'Monster-of-the-week' formula, forcing major character development without the time it would usually take to attain it.
The use of the constant rain and the flooding of the area as thematic elements never gets heavy-handed and enhances the beauty of the landscape rising up around these characters.
By the end of these episodes, you have your two protagonists, Ichabod Crane, and Abby Mills, realizing that the events from the Book of Revelations have started to happen, and the Headless Horseman is just the beginning.
This time around, most of the creative teams just focused on figuring out how to get a first person perspective and then forgot to give us an interesting story.
In an alternate universe very much like our own, few people have ever heard of Jason Voorhees but everybody knows horribly burned summer camp killer Cropsy!
The film's narrative itself slowly adopts a hallucinogenic style, with long silences, slow-motion sequences, mind-bending fast-cut psychedelic imagery and then suddenly the medium becomes the message.
If you were on the fence about sticking with this show because you thought it was poorly written and you didn't care about any of the characters, this isn't going to be the episode to win you over.
Actually, the major point of the episode for me is the masked ball everyone attends, which gives Rebekah a chance to shine as a blonde ice queen in shimmering black.
Peter Strickland has crafted a love letter to cinema itself, specifically to the Italian giallo cinema of the 70s -- the world of Argento, Bava, Fulci, and more.
