Benjamin Jenkins

I understand why people may not have liked this movie. I’d call this genre of horror movie highly abstract. It quite literally plays out like a child’s nightmare. To say the movie is “dark” is very literal, with scenes where your eyes are given just enough to play tricks on you… or are they? The film has an amorphous quality, with the most tangible elements being the two small children who find themselves “isolated” in their own, incrasigly unfamialr home. This is the sort of film where nothing is spelled out for viewer, leaving one’s imagination to theorize over what has taken place. I watched this movie alone one night while my partner slept next to me, me which is a testament to how quietly horrifying the film is. I found myself replaying scenes, unsure of what I’d just seen. This is not a movie that explains itself in anyway. You’re simply there, with the children, and are left to deal with an antagonistic force as it slowly begins to take things away.