When we saw the trailer, my husband and I thought it looked very promising. I had this nagging feeling that the movie is going to be a huge disappointment and it was.From the absurdly annoying trope of protecting the secret of the evil better than the evil itself through avoiding any sort of explanation or reasoning that a human being would understand all the way down to rushing into action before getting the full story, the characters in this movie are painfully stupid. They are also extremely half-dimensional and the tl;dr backstory dialogue(that feels so forced, it broke through my window and stared me down) does not help build any sort of connection with the viewer. as each and every one of them is a walking stereotype(from the smart jackass to the tortured artist) There are so many attempts at jump scares, even the characters in the movie stopped caring towards the end. The "gore" is awkward at best and the most horror I felt was when I realised I paid money to see this movie. The "twist" wasn't even remotely surprising as it follows a very common horror movie trope and became apparent within the first half of the movie. There is no real villain, no protagonist, no resolution, no plot The ending has a distinct Rose Red vibe to it. As in, this should have been a TV mini series with 2 more episodes instead of a standalone movie. I guess they seriously thought they were getting a sequel. If there is anything good to be said about this movie, it'd be that it creates a rather beautiful world with a Gothic feel to it. The visuals(excluding *cough* blood) and the music are quite good and it's a shame they ended up in a movie so shallow an ant would have a hard time drowning in it.

Awfull? boring? creepy ? confuse ? each word, at first sigh, could be fair. but... . it is one of films who has its precise target. so, it do not looks for large audience. in same measure, it is a nice, in the first part, mix between mistery and horror. and it has a decent, sure, in many scenes obscure, story. the sin - maybe the impressive number of cliches. and the end as step to the second part. but it is not wrong. only a good strategy. for mix legends, fairy tale, propose questions and, maybe, seduce the fans of genre.

Having one of those "I can't go to sleep" nights so I pull up the Netflix and find this movie while browsing. I have to say that I usually don't watch movies after the first 15 minutes if they don't catch my attention, but this was an exception as the acting by Peck and slightly intriguing mystery were enough to keep me watching to see if it got better. It did get better and if you like mystery, a little bit of "jump out and scare you", mixed with a bit of humor then I urge you to watch this movie. I was quite disappointed in the ending. It leaves it set up for a sequel, but I haven't seen any information that a sequel is in the works. It will be rather disappointing if there is no sequel. Kind of like your just getting to the good part of a movie on TV and the power goes out with no chance of ever being able to see the rest of the movie.

I give it 9 out of 10 only because the ending slightly tormented me but it also surprised and delighted me which is hard to do. I go to every horror movie festival I can and watch loads of them online and I tend to guess endings for horror movies and am almost always right, so much so that it has taken some enjoyment away for me. But I did not guess this plot and I had great appreciation for the writer for that. I also really loved the humorous and realistic dialogue! That was great, how natural it felt, how real the characters felt in a very make believe setting which helped ground it. If you know you already like horror and liked the movies Insidious, The Conjuring, The Village, The Visit, HoneyBee, Lights Out, It Follows, then I bet you will like this one a lot.