Jupiter (2023)

Barbara and Thomas set off with their teenage daughter Lea and their son Paul for a remote rural community. They are members of a sect. A guru has summoned a group there for the arrival of Comet Calypso, which will soon pass very close to Earth. The cult believes this encounter will allow them to travel spiritually to Jupiter and find a paradisiacal eternal life there. At first, Lea defends the sect’s teachings against her classmates, but she is horrified when she realizes that the comet ritual involves “shedding” their physical shells—in other words, the believers are planning a mass suicide. She pretends to go along with the ritual and also allows her parents to connect Paul, who has severe intellectual disabilities, to a poison drip. At the last moment of the ritual, Lea tampers only with her own drip. As the cult members around her lose consciousness, she frees herself and escapes into the open. In the final scenes, the comet is shown streaking across the sky as a gigantic fireball and returning to Jupiter. Whether the ritual had the effect the sect hoped for is left open.