A young girl, Hailey Kate Schmidt, must survive a nocturnal nightmare.
A hell of a lot has been done already when it comes to kids having scary experiences at night, be they real or imagined, in film. However, this film managed to surprise me, I found myself somewhat taken a back at times at the direction with which this film went as I wasn’t expecting to go there. It is not subversive in a way that ruins the experience and makes you feel cheated but rather in a way that reinvents the form. I hope that more kid has bad dreams/ bad experiences at night horror films learn from this film.
I thought the horror in this film was quite smart and well developed, it wasn’t a jump scare sort of film and instead built its horror slowly through a creeping sense of dread and theat. I appreciated the film taking this approach as far too often in modern horror scares are related to oh did you see that person show up behind her with a music spike.
Overall, this film is truly new and novel.
4/5
Pros.
It is scary
The child acting is good
It is well done
It will stick with you
Cons.
It could do with being longer maybe about another 15 to build up more tension
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