It's absolutely worth a watch

Rating: 8/10 (27 March 2017)

There are three huge things that made me really enjoy watching this movie, the design, the symbolism and the intelligence of the characters. Most horror movies I do not really like because what we are meant to be afraid of can be entirely lost when the monster shown does not live up to the hype the movie created around it. The only visual of the monster in this movie is through drawings and distorted visuals, we are never shown entirely what the monster is we just know it might take several shapes. I feel not knowing what I am afraid of can add a whole new level of scare, because I'm not sure what it is that is supposed to be scaring me. Another problem some horror movies have is that I stop thinking about it when the movie ends. There really isn't anything more for me to think about in the movie, it's just over now. This problem is fixed here with an interesting level of symbolism, and a lot of the symbolism can be interpreted to be several things. Not entirely knowing what I just watched and having the viewer think of their own meaning and conclusion can add a lot of replay value to this movie. You may think of an entirely different way to think about the movie after watching it for the x amount of times. The third thing I liked was that the main cast were pretty intelligent people, which is basically a long living trope in horror movies that the cast are really dumb and begging to die. I was never annoyed with how situations handled were played out, anything dumb the characters did outside of engaging with the monster is a flaw in their character. Meaning that not everyone is perfect and I feel something when watching each of the characters go through their day. I felt just sad watching the way the characters engage with each other because it is clear that something in their lives is missing, and something in your life is missing if you don't watch this movie.