Overall: 6 - This movie is definitely worth a watch, if for no other reason than to get on the ground floor of the Sandberg train. Ultimately, the effects serve the film, and that’s what they’re there to do. And when you’re in bed the night after having watched this, you’ll be looking at the darkest corners wondering what’s there.Įffects (or Judicious Lack Thereof): 6 - This movie certainly isn’t doing anything special, but it doesn’t do a whole lot wrong either. It’s not an atmospheric dread that makes you lose hope, but that doesn’t matter because you will be scared. The short run time helps a lot with this as well. World-Building / Immersion: 6 - As nonsensical as the story is, it’s well acted enough and well shot enough to keep you in it from start to finish. Either come up with something better or be just way more vague. They didn’t need much to string a bunch of scary scenes together, but they needed something different than this. If you’re even starting considering that path, please just at least look at some of the stuff here. All joking aside, that is not great, and never the right option. What we end up with is a woman troubled by depression who legitimately fixes everything by killing herself. I’ve read interviews with Sandberg where he says he was trying to do a different thing and something got lost in translation, but jesus. This movie also has a lot of worrying things to say about depression. The side-plots are under-developed too, and smack of generic family drama with a poorly fleshed out boyfriend character that is sometimes supportive, sometimes troublingly backwards thinking, and sometimes just a fucking idiot (if you’ve seen the film, I’m wondering what his endgame was in leaving a fucking sock in her drawer). Sometimes it can clearly teleport between dark areas, whereas other times it makes loud and conspicuous footsteps and get stuck when confronted with light. And they do not appear to have even settled on the rules for their monster. A lot of that is to be expected when converting a three minute short into an almost 90-minute feature, but this one loses a little something extra. The plot is nonsensical and close to non-existant.
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