Pun Salad

This little movie appears to have been made for about $3.98, but that's OK. I was surprised to see that the actors involved have reasonable-sized credits at IMDB, because it seems more like a film-school project.

Peter and Lorna are sorta-journalists looking for a hot scoop as they investigate a secret cult. They arrive at a house where they're ordered to disrobe and shower (using "a lot of soap") and then taken, blindfolded, to the cult leader. Improbably, it's a young woman named Maggie.

Maggie claims to have arrived from the future; she doesn't know how or why, but claims to provide helpful advice to her followers, enabling them to survive the coming bad times. She asks them to perform various disgusting/degrading tasks; she preaches banalities. She sings them a song, which is OK until someone points out that it was originally by the Cranberries. And she tosses out cult members who point out that she hasn't offered the slightest bit of evidence that she's actually from the future.

Eventually, she asks Peter and Lorna to do something sketchy. But Peter is no longer the hard-nosed investigative journalist; instead he's halfway seduced by Maggie's spiel. What will happen? Assuming you care.

There is a lot of ambiguity, and a number of untied loose ends. I'm sure that's intentional, but I don't care for it. The actress playing Maggie, Britt Marling, also wrote the screenplay.