Welcome back to Movie Recapped.  Today I will show you a horror,  

drama, fantasy film from 2019, titled Pilgrim. Spoilers ahead! Watch out and take care.

A woman's and a man's voice can be heard arguing,  while a child sits on the dinning table. The  

child yells after the mom not to leave, as the  father comes toward the table. Many years later,  

the child is at the dinner table again, all  grown up. She's at there with her father Shane,  

her stepbrother Tate and stepmother Anna.  They talk about the home harvest festival,  

a Thanksgiving re-enactment party  they will be hosting over the holiday.  

Cody, doesn't like Anna's idea of the party  and antagonizes her. Her father asks her  

about school and her stepmother tells  him that Cody has been cutting school.  

He gets upset because he's paying a lot for  it, but Cody doesn't want to go there anyways.  

The argument continues between her and Anna. So,  Shane stops it by giving the wishbone to Tate,  

telling him that if he breaks of the larger  piece his wish will come true. He tells Cody  

to make a wish too. She wishes for Anna's party  to backfire and breaks off the larger piece.  

That night, Cody is in her room and hears knocking  noise from another side of the house. She calls  

for Tate, then goes looking for him. Inside his  room, she knocks on his table, already knowing  

where he's hiding. Cody opens a cabinet and Tate's  there. She picks him up and puts him to bed,  

saying good night. Before she leaves his room,  he tells her that he hopes her wish comes true. 

The following day, Anna has some kind of gathering  at her house. Her friends ask her about the  

Thanksgiving party. She explains that she found  an add for it, that catered exactly to what she  

needs. The party experience was advertised as  a full re-enactment of the first Thanksgiving,  

including with the food and decorations. Her  friends think it's a good idea. Cody comes  

downstairs and asks her father what's going on,  because she hasn't read the message in the family  

group chat about the gathering. It's some kind of  neighborhood meeting, that Shane doesn't feel like  

attending either. Cody goes to the kitchen and  accidentally drops a coffee pot on the floor. When  

she crouches down to clean it up, some of Anna's  friends come to the kitchen and start badmouthing  

her, comparing her to Cody's mother. The doorbell  rings and Anna opens the door for Katherine and  

Finn. He heads straight to the kitchen and  finds Cody there. They kiss and talk about  

the party. Cody asks about his mom and he tells  her that she hasn't had a relapse in a while,  

but still keeps having panic attacks. The doorbell  rings again and everyone is in anticipation  

about who it could be. Anna opens the door and  sees that it's the re-enactors for her party.  

She wasn't expecting them this soon. The man says  that they needed time to settle in and prepare,  

so Anna invites them in. Once inside, they  introduce themselves to everyone as Ethan  

and Patience. Cody comes over to greet them,  but pulls her hand when Ethan goes to kiss it.  

He's not impressed by her behavior and tells her  that he'll be happy to get to know her over the  

next few days. Cody doesn't like the fact that  they'll be staying with them for that long,  

but Anna says that the plan has changed and  she needs to set up the guest bedroom for them.  

Anna's friends gloat at the situation, as she goes  over to Katherine to tell her that Patience will  

be staying with her to help her around the house  and make her Thanksgiving dinner too. Katherine  

is apprehensive, but Patience tries to woo her.  Later, Cody can be seen looking at Ethan through  

her bedroom window. He's preparing for the party.  She waves at him and shows him the middle finger. 

That night, the family has dinner together with  Ethan. He's telling them period appropriate  

stories, not breaking character, so Cody makes  fun of him. Anna shows Ethan to the washroom  

and Shane scolds Cody for being rude, telling  her that her stepmom cares a lot for the party.  

Cody thinks it's weird that Ethan hasn't broken  character, but Tate likes him. She also tells her  

dad to stop looking at his tablet. He closes it,  as Ethan and Anna return. He immediately starts  

talking about the importance of Thanksgiving and  what it symbolizes, when Cody antagonizes him over  

the problematic cultural aspects of the holiday's  history. Anna and Shane don't like that she keeps  

making fun of the re-enactor. Later, Cody is  vaping at her window. Suddenly, Finn grabs her  

hand from the outside, scaring her. They lie in  her bed and she puts her vape away in a cross.  

Downstairs, Anna and Shane talk about her, while  he's at his tablet, checking the stock market.  

He tells Anna that Cody always gets  like that at that time of year.  

Cody and Finn talk about Ethan and Patience.  Cody says that he's giving her bad vibes.  

Simultaneously, Anna is telling her husband that  she doesn't like it that Cody is treating her like  

an evil stepmother. Shane isn't paying attention.  Cody searches for the re-enactors on Facebook,  

but finds nothing. She's upset about them because  she thinks they're weird, but Finn thinks she's  

upset because Anna found them. Regardless, he  tells her to relax because they'll be gone in a  

few days and that she should try to have some fun.  Shane and Anna still talk about Cody's mother.  

He tells her that if she blames anyone about her  leaving, it's him. Meanwhile, Cody hears something  

upstairs and goes to check it out, leaving Finn  in her bedroom. She checks on Tate, but finds  

Ethan in his room, telling him a bedtime story.  Cody isn't happy about it and makes him leave.  

As they exit, Ethan creepily thanks  her for opening their home to them.  

She feels trapped in the conversation, when he  tells her that Anna told him about her mother. For  

a moment it seems as if he's breaking character,  when he tells Cody that he also has had a family  

and lost them. That is the reason why he wants to  help other families realize what they truly have.  

She goes back to her room and tells Finn to  stay over, because she's creeped out by Ethan. 

The following morning, Katherine and Patience  talk in Katherine's kitchen, while Patience is  

making an herbal remedy that will help her sleep  better. Katherine thanks her and starts talking  

about all the problems she has, mentioning Finn as  well. Patience thinks he needs to give back more,  

while Katherine just thinks he's behaving like  all teenagers do. Besides, she was also the  

partying type when she was his age. Then she  asks Patience about what got her into theatre,  

she misunderstands and says Ethan did. She tells  Katherine that he had a difficult childhood and  

because of that he teaches others to learn how  to appreciate what they have. Katherine says  

she's a pessimist and Patience tells her that  Ethan changed everything for her and he will  

for Katherine as well. She gives her the herbal  remedy. Later, Cody comes back home from school  

and sees that Ethan has raised a shed in their  backyard, as well as cordoned off one of the doors  

to the house. She walks inside and finds Anna  and Ethan changing the light bulbs for candles.  

They all go into the kitchen where Tate brings  in a basket of berries that he picked with Ethan.  

One type of berry is very poisonous, he tells  Tate. Cody gets angry with Anna for letting him go  

unsupervised with a stranger. Before she leaves,  Anna takes her cell phone and tells her that  

she'll take her laptop as well. Tate is excited  about it and Ethan appreciates that. Cody goes to  

her room and wonders about the shed. Later, Tate  is trying to help a sick crow, when Ethan joins  

him and asks him about it. He appreciates Tate's  selfless act and gives him a treat as a reward.  

Then, Ethan tells Tate a fairy tale about wanting  more than what one has and ending up with nothing  

once one goes after it. The boy understands  the moral of the story and Ethan talks to God,  

saying he didn't have to take everything away  from him to teach him. He gives Tate another  

candy and tells him to be grateful for what he  has. When the child leaves, he kills the crow. 

Finn arrives back home and calls for his mom.  Simultaneously, Cody hears a noise and goes  

to find Tate. Finn is looking for his mom, who  doesn't answer. Cody keeps hearing a child laugh  

and follows it through the house. Finn walks into  Patience's room and finds her with bloodied hands,  

mixing something. He's terrified so he walks out  of the room, only to find his mom passed out on  

the ground. He turns her over and her face is  bloody. Finn runs down to escape the house, when  

someone grabs him. Meanwhile, Cody walks outside  and finds Tate and Ethan reading the Bible.  

She tells the boy to go hide and they'll play  hide and seek. They both knock on the table, when  

the boy runs off to find a hiding spot. Cody is  angry at Ethan for pushing religion onto the boy.  

He's confused, saying he thought she was a proper  Christian because he found the cross in her room.  

He tells her that she doesn't appreciate  what she has, but that she will learn.  

She walks inside and looks for her dad. Cody finds  him smoking pipes with older men also dressed like  

pilgrims. Shane tells her that they are Ethan's  friends, as he joins them there. They tell Cody  

to leave the office. Later, she has a nightmare  about her mom and dad arguing and Ethan jumps  

out at her saying "Happy thanksgiving". She wakes  and there's a knock at her door. Anna comes in,  

with Patience following. They tell her that  Katherine and Finn left, probably because  

Kathrine went on a bender and took him with her.  Cody doesn't believe it. But Anna tells her that  

Patience will stay with them, since she doesn't  feel safe staying alone in Katherine's house.  

Cody tries to tell her stepmom that something  doesn't feel right, but she dismisses her worries  

and the the girl storms out. Downstairs she  sees two older women praying. Ethan joins them,  

as Tate peeks at them. Some time later, Anna and  the other women are preparing Thanksgiving dinner.  

She's worried about Katherine, but Patience tells  her that she wasn't strong enough and should  

be seen as a warning. Anna is frightened, so she  goes to find her husband. She finds other pilgrims  

in her house, picking it apart and changing it.  Outside, she finds another pilgrim who's building  

something in the backyard for the party. She finds  Ethan and asks him where Tate is. Anna goes after  

him in his room, but she can't find him there, so  she goes to her husband for help. She tells Shane  

that she should have listened to Cody. Suddenly,  Patience shows up and tells them that they're out  

of rosemary. Anna and Shane say that they'll find  the kids and go to the store together. But Ethan  

joins the three of them and says that the children  are perfectly safe to stay in the home with him  

and the others. Meanwhile, Cody goes to check on  Finn at his house. She calls to him and his mom,  

but the house looks empty. Cody sees something  in the kitchen, when suddenly Finn's dead body  

drops in front of her. She runs back home. Back at the house, Shane and Anna are restrained,  

as Ethan tells them that they need to learn to  appreciate what they have. One of the pilgrims  

flogs Shane, as Ethan breaks his tablet and  continues to explain what they need to be taught.  

Patience heats up a poker and brands Anna, as  Ethan laughs and Shane gets flogged some more.  

Cody arrives at the house and peeks through the  windows to see what's going on. She finds her  

parents restrained in the backyard and releases  them. Suddenly, one of the pilgrims attacks her,  

but they all fight him together and beat him  up. They can't seem to restrain him completely,  

so each grabs a tool and they hit him to death.  The three of them realize what they've done and  

Cody says that they have to hide the body. They  pull him in on the side of the house. Cody shows  

her parents how to sneak into the house and find  Tate, as she goes to the other side of the house.  

She quickly gets surrounded and cornered by the  pilgrims. Anna and Shane are also cornered by  

them when they enter through the window. Ethan  stabs Shane, then pushes him out of the window.  

Patience is already waiting for him with an axe,  as he's laying on the ground barely conscious.  

She kills him. Later, Ethan has Cody and Anna  restrained in the backyard again, as he recites  

passages. Patience slaps Anna and he tells her  that she is unaware of everything that she has.  

Cody pleads with them to stop. Ethan asks if she's  scared yet, as they move the contraption she's  

tied up to and submerge her into the pool. They  bring her up after a few moments under the water,  

as she asks what they want. Ethan tells the  others to submerge her again. They keep doing  

it over and over. Anna cries after her. Cody is  barely hanging on and they take her out again,  

with Ethan asking if she's grateful. She's  submerged again and after a few moments Ethan  

signs his men to pull her out. Cody is tired  and broken as they bring her back in to Ethan.  

He proclaims that it's time to prepare the feast. Anna and Cody are set on a table, where Patience  

instructs them on what to do. They start their  tasks and Cody sees Tate hiding, almost giving  

his position away to Ethan. Anna asks what he  wants from them as he returns toward the table.  

He says he simply wants a thanksgiving feast  with a grateful family. At one moment, Cody  

starts saying that she did learn to appreciate her  family, her father and stepmother for providing  

for her and giving her Tate. Ethan is happy that  she's learning and tells Anna to follow her lead.  

She says that she never took them  for granted, because she loves them.  

Ethan disagrees and as he prepares to cut her  open, Cody grabs the pick and shanks Patience.  

Anna makes an additional diversion  for her and she manages to escape.  

Patience removes the pick from her head and tells  Ethan that she's fine. Meanwhile Cody searches for  

Tate and finds him in his closet. The pilgrims  look for them and she tells Tate to hide again.  

As soon as she leaves him, she's captured. Anna  is sitting with Ethan at the dinner table, as he  

keeps spouting nonsense about the ways things were  in the past. Cody is brought to the table as well  

and Ethan is happy that it's all coming together,  telling Anna that her husband will be joining them  

soon as well. The other pilgrims keep bringing  platters onto the table, as Ethan proclaims that  

Shane will finally provide for them. He opens one  of the platters to reveal Shane's cooked head.  

Patience feeds Cody from the meat, as she  screams and cries. And the same happens  

with Anna. The pilgrims dig into the dinner and  have the time of their life as they are eating.  

Patience goes to the kitchen to grab more wine,  when she hears something and goes looking.  

At the table, Cody keeps antagonizing Ethan and  he asks for her respect. Suddenly, everyone starts  

chocking on the food, because Cody has put poison  berries in the sauce. The pilgrims start vomiting  

blood and falling over, dying. Ethan figures  out what she did and makes himself vomit out the  

sauce. Meanwhile, Patience is looking for Tate and  she begins to vomit explosively too. Ethan screams  

after her and goes to help her. She vomits out the  sauce too and falls down in front of the cupboard  

where Tate is hiding. The boy hears her fall and  exits his hiding place, then goes to the dining  

table. The women are telling him not to be scared,  as he goes over to Cody to untie her. Tate sees  

his dads head on the platter and vomits. Next,  Cody goes after Ethan with a knife, ready to kill  

him, but he jumps out of a window. Simultaneously,  Patience comes back to the table and attacks Anna.  

They fight on the table and the mother hits her  over the head with Shane's head, then eventually  

manages to stab her. Tate thinks she's done  good. Cody goes after Ethan in the backyard  

and kicks him around. Anna and Tate join them  outside and the stepmom burns him with the poker,  

then keeps hitting him for everything that he  has done to her family. Cody finds the axe and  

walks over to him, asking why he did this to  them. Ethan laughs and says the same thing he  

kept saying. He also asks Cody if what happened  wasn't exactly what she wished for. Anna covers  

Tate's eyes and Cody kills Ethan with the axe.  He has her piece of the wishbone in his hand.