Relatively familiar horror territory, done RIGHT.

Rating: 8/10 (21 July 2019)

I'm generally affected by horror movies only while watching them but this one did stay with me after leaving the cinema.
On the surface it's a more or less standard horror movie story: a family is terrorized by demonic activity. I felt that the horror came from two different avenues in this film. There's the family drama which revolves around Toni Collette's barely-controlled resentment for her children and there's the demonic cult which her mother belonged to.
One of the greatest things the film does is force you in to place of immense discomfort pretty early on in the runtime leaving you vulnerable to the events that happen after. I thought that was a genius move!
My one problem with the film is that it fails to actually join the two story strands in the end. The last act of the film leaves behind the family drama and focuses on the cult without resolving the family or interweaving it into the cult story.
It sounds like a bigger problem than it is because the skill gone in to producing the actual horror and scares in the film MORE than makes up for the lack of tie-in at the end.