PRESENTS

When a group of stereotypical young adults happen upon an irreversible curse, our only hope is there is no one left to utter its words. As a whole, this film holds strengths only in jump scares and confusing reality considerations. I want to give a healthy shout out to the "hellhound," moments of the film which held a quiet and nuanced fear. That being said, the "monster," quality of this film needed greatly more drive and reason. Is he creepy? Sure. Does he mess people up? Yeah. But ultimately, why is he doing this? Much of the dialogue felt very "bro-y," and the character interactions felt inauthentic. A couple things that shook me were that the monster wore a Henley shirt at the end of the film and that there was smoke left in the shotgun blast hole in the door early in the film. Don't forget that if you get bored of this film in the first few minutes, perhaps you can count the amount of times the actors try to force their eyes out of their skull in fear and disbelief.