Really a disappointment

Rating: 3/10 (31 October 2018)

Like several other recent horror films - "The Visit", "The Babadook" and "The VVitch" among them, this one stars out strongly but drops off sharply when it stops just suggesting what's happening, and crosses the line into being way too explicit about what's going on. When the mystery starts to evaporate and we're watching chalk write by itself or bodies floating through the air, the actors are left looking a little silly trying to make us believe they take this stuff seriously. By the climax what should have been seriously creepy, and could have at least approached Polanski-like levels of dread, only left me wanting it to end so I could go back and look at those amazing miniatures again.