Disappointment

Rating: 4/10 (7 July 2018)

At first, this movie seemed so promising. Debating mental health issues and how they tend to run in the family, building up a story instead of just going ahead with the scary stuff like a classical horror movie... it just seemed like this would really revolutionize the horror industry, since many "scary" movies rely too much on jumpscares instead of trying to get under your skin. But this movie DOES get under your skin. You end up feeling sympathy for the main characters, and Milly Shapiro is just amazing and adorable (except for her thing with that bird...). I sat in the theatre, thinking that I was in for a real treat that would leave me with a lot to think about.
That completely changed withing that last scene.
They could have focused on the mental illnesses and how people with anxiety or schizophrenia tends to make everything worse in their heads, imagining things that will never happen. They could have gone in so many different directions, and instead they end up going with this weird cult-thing that nobody really understood? Everybody in the theater that I heard talk afterwards felt the same as I did. Vice called this the horror movie of the century, but I disagree