POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD
It was indeed absolutely, utterly and completely pointless. There is a possibility that Ramsey Campbell's novel was lost in translation somewhere, but even then the narrative is so weak you could drink it without side effects. The movie spends a lot of time discussing the "synthesis" of "pure evil" but that never receives an explanation. How is grooming a child by exposing it to nasty pictures and murder synthesising evil? Nothing happens because of it. It is not like you can do that and the devil will appear. It is a notion and nothing more. Nothing is achieved by it. The point at the end is, as the other contributor stated, the suffering of the mother, but so what? So long as she survives the rest of the group, in time she would move on and conclude that her daughter was sadly abducted by weirdos and groomed - sad but true, these things do happen in life. It would have no long-term, devastating, lasting effects on the world. The director has made some really superior horror and suspense movies, so my only problem with this one is that any magazine might consider it in the top 300, but otherwise it is very forgetable, mediocre and not that good in any way.
One thing I would advise anybody with questions is to read the novel by Ramsey Campbell. It might be hard to find in print now, but for 100 per cent sure you can obtain it on Kindle and maybe some other readers. It may well answer far more questions that speculating on it.
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