Definitely scary and tense... but a good movie???

Rating: 5/10 (9 January 2019)

Basically what it comes down to is maybe I'm just dumb, but I found this movie to be very difficult to follow and ultimately I felt that it demanded too much from the audience in order to piece together what was REALLY happening in the movie during the first screening of the film.
The manipulation by the director and production crew is excellent however, if not a little cheesy and cliche at times. The movie succeeds in being very tense and even pretty scary at points. When watching this I felt a palpable dread during most of the movie, but a lot of that dread was fear and anxiety about what sort or horrific gore the movie might show on the screen. IMO THAT kind of horror is not the right way to do horror and not very skillful.
Anyways, I felt like the movie had a lot going for itself thematically, the acting in this movie is surprisingly good as well, but ultimately it was just too difficult for me to put together what actually transpired in the movie after my first viewing. And I feel that a movie that leaves people confused when leaving the theater isn't necessarily a good thing.
Not sure if I would watch this again at this point.