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Imaginary watched.

From what I've seen online, it seems a lot of people either are giving it a 1/5 or a 5/5 for some reason. It isn't that divisive of a film, at least not in my opinion. I'd say it's a good offering, certainly a heck of a lot better than Night Swim as far as Blumhouse is concerned. I think from a concept standpoint it's great, and the first half or so of the film does a great job with the ominous world building and subtle spooks tossed in. The knock I have on this movie is that it wants to tell too much of a story in a small amount of time. That forces it into an exposition dump at one point, and it's not something I found to have been very well done. The movie was at its best when it wasn't holding your hand and just letting you draw your own conclusions, because they aren't hard to make. One of the characters also has a drastic personality change around this same time, and it's kinda hard to ignore.

But ultimately I did enjoy my experience with it. It does a lot of things I like such as the trope of "you haven't escaped, you're just imaging you did". I really like when I see this trope, it's one of my favorites and I think it was set up nicely here. Not quite on The Descent level obviously, but again, I'm a sucker for this.. Monster design if good, of course, it's Blumhouse. Child actor is also really pretty good too. Solid B film for me.