It seems trite for me to say this, but this movie wasn't that scary. The whole cautionary tale about being careful about what you wish for I suppose can be considered scary, but no where was I remotely close to being horrified, or motivated to close my eyes from some scary moment. They could at least have gone with gruesome death scenes to appease horror fans, but it looked like they were more worried about traumatizing elementary school kids.
Despite my criticisms, I was generally interested with the story, and the whole concept it introduces. It has some good ideas with how it established the main supernatural threat of the movie, and the closest film I can think of to compare what this was going for, is the Final Destination franchise. The way the death scenes are set up, there is a good bit of intrigue and suspense on how somebody is going to meet their end. That's whats actually entertaining about watching the movie, although I would prefer it if they were more ambitious about it though.
While the main characters themselves were likable enough in their own right, they still typically did stupid things to ruin the suspension of disbelief. In general there were ridiculous plot points that defied rationality, but at the same time I was kind of invested enough to see what was going to happen next. It's just disappointing that this actually does have some cool ideas that I want to see developed more, and I simply wish that it was a better movie than it actually turned out.
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