Lovecraftian creatures aren’t bound by our understanding of space and time, and it’s this aspect that’s explored in 2017’s indie horror, “The Endless.” Cautious and unsure of their memories, two brothers (played by the film’s creators, Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead) return to the cult that raised them. The cult seems mostly harmless, one of those communes with a heavy focus on weird team-building exercises and smiling through the pain. But things start feeling not quite right well before the cult’s patriarch leads them in drawing down the moon, which is not a metaphor. By the end, time is not on their side. Time only serves the unseen thing watching over its worshippers.

The hardest thing about surviving a cult is finding a new way to live. The hardest thing about surviving this cult is figuring out what you want for yourself before it’s too late to leave. The cult’s “god” is real. The cult believes it has a true purpose. It’s a horrific purpose, however, that requires dying repeatedly in time loops of varying lengths for some thing’s awful amusement.