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I would say it feels more like a gothic drama than a horror movie. I think it gets close, but the focus is very clearly on not doing any scares here and it's all about telling this drama. It has plenty of horror elements though, but the trailers all talking about how it's the scariest film they'll see this year are nuts and just setting this up for disappointment. Like it's a drama first and horror comes second, which is totally fine and I still really enjoyed it.

I'm glad we both had the same thoughts on it though. Completely agree with the rest, especially the spoilered bits.

Conclusion spoilers:

I also had some kind of physical reaction of it with the reveal of the son. Where the whole movie, the mother didn't believe this at all and didn't once get approached by the ghost because she's so obsessed with her son. And then she finally gets approached at the end and she's compelled to follow this feeling. And the presence has one last thing to do: give his mother closure. And that gut punch of the reveal, the mom shrieking and breaking down, and fully believing it all now. And then the presence simply leaves the house, fulfilled. Completely perfect.

It's extremely hard to get a conclusion that perfect, but with a tight 90 minutes it just completely nails it, and it's just not nearly as strong without all of the build up before it.