Poorly established

Rating: 6/10 (7 December 2019)

The movie does a very poor job of linking its elements together. Indeed you can't even tell what is real and what is imagined because of the way they set everything up (the protagonist is mental issues). It seems to imply that the daughter was possessed but we are not given any clue about this during the movie. It isn't clear if the apparitions we see in the beginning play ANY role in the story or if they are just imagined. Does burning the little book imply you get burned? If so why was it that when she throws the book in the fire the first time she gets burned but the second time the husband gets burned? Where is the logic? Is this explained? Was there a link to the pigeon and human decapitation? Why did the grandma's corpse need to be kidnapped? I thought the mothers job would play some role... but nope. They put a weird emphasis on one of the guys classmates, some blonde who is clever, or whatever but nothing ever becomes of that character, completely ignored. Anyway it all seems like completely disconnected elements.
On the plus side the acting and filming aren't too bad.
Honestly this movie just seems arbitrary, horror movies don't have to answer WHY the rules are what they are but they do have to answer WHY the rules changed within the movie.