The Hill and the Hole (2019) has everything: an incomprehensible plot that veers wildly from boring to bizarre, terrible effects, terrible acting, inconsistent (or nonexistent) character development, and a deep desire to be SiGnIfIcAnT, at which it completely fails. It's not scary and it's not funny. It tries to be both? I guess?

It's about a surveyor/archaeologist who is trying to figure out why a big mound in the southwest reads as a deep hole on his surveying equipment instead. That premise is really cool! Unfortunately, what follows is so random and meaningless that I don't think "confusing" describes it accurately. There are murderous ranchers, a chain-smoking, fried-dough-maker-turned-cultist, and a massive red laser pointer that keeps trying to blind viewers. A lot of people also eat dirt, and I mean that literally, not that they faceplant into the ground.

I've never seen a movie in such desperate need of a professional riffing.