It just wasn't that good

Rating: 4/10 (18 February 2019)

There is so many fantastic reviews on this film, some calling it the horror movie of the year. So of course when it came onto Amazon Prime I had to give it a watch. And honestly I just could not get into the film and here's why...
It takes way too long to get going. Before you start figuring it all out and "stuff" starts happening, it's a good hour and a half into the film. By then, me personally, just didn't feel overly connected anymore.
The plot. It is just very very confusing. Due to the slow pace of the film, you are waiting for something to happen. It does. But, you then do not know why. Was it a freak accident? Or something more? It does tell us at the end what is happening, the explanation, I found to be quite loose.
The characters are just not likable. This was such an annoying aspect of the film I could simply not get past. Not one character in the family is even slightly likable. What this did was make the audience unconnected to any of them. So if anything happened to them, you won't be that bothered by it.
Finally, they kept using the horror cliche of the character slowly turning around. They did this so much throughout the film that is just lost that scare factor. The horror of this happening just became null, because it had happened so much. It became very annoying to watch also, when the same character will do it for the 50th time in 30 minutes. Loses it's touch.
These four major points really put me off the film and I just did not connect with it at any point. During midway, I just wanted it to finish.I will say that in terms of the "horror genre" it adds a different element. There isn't many jump scares and the "horror" element mainly comes from tension and suspense. Obviously, this is subjective and some will find this scary, others will not.
Overall, I wouldn't personally watch this. There are much better horror films out there.