re-defines slow burn

Rating: 3/10 (5 November 2018)

This movie was terrible. I cannot imagine who the people are who are giving this a good review. The movie's tagline is: "When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry." -- and I wanted to see that movie. The tagline is a lie. The secrets don't start to unravel until you are 90 minutes into the movie, by then you have probably fallen asleep and if not, the secrets are "meh".
This movie would be OK as a drama about a family descending into madness induced by a series of tragedies. Shoehorning horror into this movie was awkward, and unnecessary. In the very, VERY slow opening 90 minutes there were 2 or 3 remarks that meant little at the time but made sense after the movie concluded -- but it wasn't much, and not really compelling.
The first 90 minutes succeeded in making you feel uncomfortable -- with the awkward family and their misfortune, and there were a couple of senseless gore scenes which added nothing to the movie other than allowing them to call it horror. If you want to feel uncomfortable, this will do it. If you want gore, this doesn't have much, if you want jump scares, again, look elsewhere. If you want creepy -- this movie has a bit of that -- but again, it falls more into discomfort rather than truly creepy. They call the end a twist. It wasn't. It was a surprise, I suppose, but not a consequential one.
Just don't watch it. Even streaming. It isn't worth your time.