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Rating: 3/10 (19 June 2019)

I was pretty excited to watch it hearing good things about it but I was disappointed. The movie is about a writer who writes true crime stories and moves to a house where there was a murder of the family who lived in there apart from one of the children. He finds some home footage of 5 different murders and begins to try to piece everything together.
The main problems with this film for me is the tension and scare factor, not once did I feel uncomfortable or on edge and even when the jumpscares came on I didn't really get much from it because i was expecting it. The son of Ellison the main character has these night terrors and they dont really serve a purpose other than to scare you with jumpscares. I feel like the acting particularly when the family would converse with each other felt really forced and fake and dont even get me started on ellisons wife i dont know if its just the way she speaks or if shes doing that on purpose but she is easily the weakest actress in the movie. The ghost children werent very scary and neither was the main villain, I'll admit i genuinely was interested in the pagan deity despite it being quite cliché and despite being called the: "eater of children." Which made me laugh, I do quite like the idea of worshipping or being a slave to some demon that makes you kill in their name as I feel like you can really build any kind of character from that. A good example of a movie that does that well is red dragon the hannibal lecter film in which we see the killer, Francis struggle when the voice in his head/demon tells him to kill a woman who he has come to love and it pains him that he has to kill her to please the voice.
The film had good shots a lot of the time and i really liked how the filmed footage was shot but other than that i was really bored and dissapointed i wouldnt reccomend this to anyone if you want to be scared and I am surprised how much praise it has gotten.