5/10
Nice visuals, but weak overall
5 September 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Highlights:
  • The visualization of the various horror figures, e.g. Harold and the Pale Lady.
  • Several creepy and/or shocking moments keep things interesting, e.g. the pimple scene.
  • Zoe Colletti as Stella was fun to watch.


Lowlights:
  • The 'outer story' constructed to wrap the stories together is lazy and uninspired. It would have been better just to leave them separate and flesh them out a little, drawing out the tension in each.
  • I liked the attempt to bring in the 1968/Nixon/Vietnam stuff, but it just came across as awkward.
  • The characters are all pretty stock, giving the film a packaged feeling.
  • The scene with Stella and Sarah towards the end is in particular forced and weak ("that's on you" ...ugh, an eight year old could have written this)
  • Overall comes across as pretty standard stuff. It's not horrible, but it could have been much better.
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