This movie has been misunderstood, but now there's a reason not to..

Rating: 10/10 (31 January 2020)

I'm not a big fan of Radha Michell to be honest. Most of her movies have weird choppy editing somehow, which as a person with mild ADHD, I find mostly annoying, but this was an exception.
As a horror movie fan who has watched atleast 200 horror movies in total, this movie was a delight.
The religious sentiments are not far from truth, even if the depiction was exaggerating or elaborate.
The psychological aspects hit the right note. The feel of characters behaving like characters from a game was nearly spot on, especially the female cop, given that this movie is adapted from a game. So that was a nice touch.
The movie's ending must've confused some people back then. But you know what makes it sensible & better today? Answer : "Stranger Things". Yes, if you've watched the show, and understand the concept of something known as the "Upside Down", you start seeing this movie in new light & start recognizing the creativity of the movie. The concept was adopted before it was cool, and Stranger Things itself gets its inspiration from various movies from the past, not only from the 80s. Maybe if I had watched this movie back then I wouldn't have liked it so much as I like it now.