Those details don't matter to Azrael as she's just trying to get through the night, so they don't need to matter to her audience. But there's something crucial lacking here: character.

Azrael, the new 2024 horror movie starring Samara Weaving, has a lore behind the burned demons — but the crew doesn’t want you to know it fully.

Azrael is of course best known for his stint as an unhinged and violent Batman when he replaced Bruce Wayne in the 1993-'94 'Knightfall' story arc after Batman's back is broken by Bane.

While dialogue-free horror films aren’t new (e.g., A Quiet Place or Don’t Breathe), Azrael takes a more aggressive approach by significantly restricting spoken dialogue than its predecessors.

DC’s description of Sword of Azrael #1 reads: “The warrior angel of St. Dumas returns! Jean-Paul Valley does not want to be Azrael ever again. All it has brought him is pain, violence, and misery.

It's always good to have at least one openly religiously fundamentalist vigilante on the team, I guess. Azrael was created by Denny O'Neil, Joe Quesada, and Peter Milligan in 1992, so he is back ...

Those details don't matter to Azrael as she's just trying to get through the night, so they don't need to matter to her audience. But there's something crucial lacking here: character.