What I really think

Rating: Null/10 (29 March 2015)

This movie is about a mother and her child trying to escape from an evil story book character. The mother is trying to cope with the loss of her husband as she tries to save her and her sons life. The film plays on the stereotypical "monster in my closet" that everybody believed in when they were a kid. That is why I think the movie is so great is because the beginning of the film is through the perspective and imagination of a little kid. The fact that they used a children's book in the film was, to me, what made it have a bigger "creepiness" feeling throughout the whole movie. The whole movie looks depressing. You can tell by the colors shown throughout. The inside of the house itself are shades of blues and grays which are "cool colors" which shows that somebody is going through something. The clothes that the kid wears are also shades of blues and grays, until the end of the movie. To me, the ending should have been different, but I won't give it away. I just feel like that should have ended the film in a different way. I would recommend seeing this movie. It was overall very good and easy to follow. The acting in this film is great, the mother did a really good job considering the fact that she had to act possessed for half the movie. The child was also great. Being that young and having to act like that, especially when it was about a children's book character, is pretty difficult. I think that the "monster" in the film represents an inner sorrow. Once she defeats the "monster", which I think is her husband, she is able to go back to a normal life and she shows her son that she loves unlike she did before.