Good movie EXCEPT for the last 10 minutes

Rating: 6/10 (3 November 2018)

It's hard to rate this movie. The movie runs for 2 hours. The first 1 hour and 50 minutes was really good, I mean, REALLY good. About an hour in, I thought to myself, this is a really good movie, something really different than what we're used to, a horror movie that is not just about scaring its viewers. Good acting by Toni Collette, nice cinematography, good writing and directing, good buildup, unconventional scares, no jump scares at all. Because of that, I was hoping for the ending to be different, to match the buildup and setup it prepares the viewers. But I was let down.
The last 10 or 15 minutes of the movie shows us nothing original, nothing you have never seen before in many horror movies. This kind of ending has been done to death for decades, I was sorely disappointed. The little "twist" in the final moment seemed like something the writer had to come up with to make up for the weak third act.
This movie reminds me of House of The Devil, another slow burner type of horror movie which was really, really good until they ruined it in the third act. What can I say, I guess coming up with a strong ending is really hard, especially for horror movies. Maybe that's why most prefer to play it safe and keep horror movies simple. Maybe "simple" works better for horror movies anyway.