It premiered at the 2024 South by Southwest festival on March 9, 2024, and was theatrically released by IFC Films and Shudder in the United States on September 27, 2024.

Azrael and her lover, Kenan, are ousted from a forest-dwelling cult who believe that speech is a sin, and who have surgically removed their vocal cords to cease speaking.

Late that night, Azrael stumbles upon a road where a man in a truck offers her a ride, but the vehicle crashes after a cultist shoots and kills the driver.

In the woods, Azrael finds Kenan nailed to a tree, and is caught in a booby trap by one of the cultists, leaving her dangling upside down by a rope.

Enraged, Azrael manages to climb out of the buried casket and return to the encampment, lighting it on fire and assassinating the members of the group one by one.

Azrael drives a cleaver into Josephine's neck, mortally wounding her just as the cries of Miriam's newborn baby are heard.

[6] The production created an artificial moon in the Pärispea forest during filming by using a system of connected floodlights hoisted by a crane.

The website's consensus reads: "Lead (sic) by another bloody fantastic performance from Samara Weaving, Azrael sacrifices depth on the altar of storytelling economy but delivers pure adrenaline in the bargain.