Slow build up then BAM!

Rating: 8/10 (8 July 2018)

This movie was triiiiiiipy. I went into this movie totally blind--I didn't know what it was about, who was in it, or even the genre. I don't want to say I was confused, but I did have questions about where the movie was going in the beginning.
The movie begins with Annie (Toni Collette) quasi-grieving the loss of her mother. It's clear they didn't have the best relationship and it's clear that her mother had some skeletons in the closet. Annie's husband, Steve (Gabriel Byrne), is a supportive good husband. Her son, Peter (Alex Wolff), seems OK except he likes to get stoned. Her daughter, Charlie (Milly Shapiro), is truly the odd duck. It's enough for her to be considered strange that she's thirteen and looks like she just lost her front tooth and she likes to cluck like a hen; except it doesn't end with that.
For the first hour of the movie all you know is that something is not right with the family. In that first hour a few key things occur--important and shocking enough to keep you in-tuned but still not informational enough to let you know what's coming next. Then, in the last hour is when I was at the edge of my seat, then gripping the armrests, then mentally preparing myself to be spooked to death. The last hour was a rollercoaster. This little sleeper of a movie was terrific, a great addition to the horror genre.