

“…worship Percy Stephens, a demon and founder of the Circle and self-proclaimed ‘greatest entity ever known.'”Īs if demonic leaders and psycho-talk weren’t enough, the entire place is filled with freaky mannequins and creepier masks. Percy’s backstory, involving being pecked to death by a tiger shark, is so convolutedly ludicrous, there’s no way of sensibly transcribing it. They all worship Percy Stephens, a demon and founder of the Circle and self-proclaimed “greatest entity ever known.” Percy Stephens claims to “live in the hidden cabin at the center of the Circle,” and whose black-and-white, blurry photos grace the walls of the Circle’s cabins. Led by the ominous Mathew (Michael Rogers), the Circle believes that each human is assigned a path to salvation.

Greg is awoken by Lotus Cloud (Heather Doerksen) and Sky (Andrea Brooks), members of a mostly-female commune/cult called the Circle. Greg (Matthew MacCaull) and his daughter Samantha’s (Taylor Dianne Robinson) merry camping trip comes to a violent end when a bear attacks their tent. The results clearly demonstrate that he should’ve stuck to voicing chimpanzees.

Yet here we are, witnessing David Fowler perform a 180° swivel, from anthropomorphizing animals to slaughtering human beings in Welcome to the Circle. No one would rationally expect the man behind Disneynature fare such as Penguins, Elephant, and Diving with Dolphins to make his directorial debut with a demonic horror feature.
