thelonehamster Publish time 17-3-2021 18:05:06

Subtle and Meditative

The precedent titling here may seem incongruous to what is at first billed as a horror/thriller, but there are nuances not immediately evident in both the film's direction and in Pare's performance. I can understand the back and forth in reactions conveyed in the reviews en masse as I think a very particular mindset and perhaps even a set of life experiences to correlate bring out a very different takeaway with this film. For me, I found that I began watching it as a film but reflected on it thereafter as an exploration that left me in a state of reevaluation of my life, my attitude. Thomas is not an inherently likable guy, but you can tell (spoilers, maybe?) he knows that and, given the chance, would take measures to amend that. Ultimately though, such opportunities will never truly come, as you'll see herein, and that may be the most horrifying lesson to learn.

score 8/10

thelonehamster 25 November 2016

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