POSITIVES
It's always effective to make a house, a home, or the place you sleep in the setting of a scary horror movie and this one really takes advantage of that in that creepy, mysterious, disturbing, brutal kind of way.
Love how this movie throws curveballs into the narrative. It just constantly keeps you on your toes and on the edge of your seat. I was going “WTF?!” so many times. What a roller coaster experience of a story.
Excellent cinematography, and camera work. Really keeps you off balanced in what you are or aren’t seeing on screen. Makes you paranoid about what you might see in the background. Plus having us peer into the pitch blackness is a great way to keep that suspense and tension going.
There are three primary actors featured in this movie, Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, and Justin Long. I appreciated how each one of them brought so much into their particular characters, and truly carried the movie. Also have to give a huge shout out to Matthew Patrick Davis for his supporting role in this.
Just barely underneath the horror movie premise, there are clearly some messages and commentaries that this wants to relay to us. Some are really obvious, while others try to challenge your perspective. Discuss what happened in the plot all you want, but there are themes here that are worth chewing on.
NEGATIVES
Prepare to shout “why are you doing that?!” or “don’t go in there!” to the screen multiple times. I also have to point out that there is one particular moment when it seemed like the movie wasn’t going to be that kind of horror movie, but then proceeds to follow that trope anyway.
Unfortunately still uses some convenient plot inconveniences just to move the story along.
I think there’s one legitimate plot hole here that it doesn’t address, which I feel like took me out of the movie a bit.
Some people might call out the narrative to be a bit repetitive in some regards, and how it’s just giving you the run-around.
There’s one scene that is so unbelievably frustrating involving certain supporting characters that it kinda feels a bit too manipulative, and is forcing a specific perspective on you in an almost unrealistic sense within the context of the plot.
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