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My first niggle is, as other reviewers have pointed out, that this is a supernatural thriller, not horror. Not a bad thing at all, IMO, but a smidge irritating that the genre is miscategorized. It was good, but really could've used another half hour to flesh out, so to speak, and be what it should've been and deserved to be. I'll be looking for longer cuts on DVD. The almost non-existent and very rushed bonding of the two leads needed more development to really be effective. Really, I would love a sequel, but only if given more character and story development. There's that word again: development. Too hasty - didn't really sink its hooks into me like it could have and should have. Visually - wonderful. Very well done. Actors & acting were, to me, perfect.

For once, knowing what was coming didn't make the journey any less entertaining. Better acting and characters than most big studio films lately - most of them very relatable, even if over-the-top. Delightful cameos / side characters. So delightful, in fact, that I kept hoping she'd abandon her quest in favor of staying with them! Good sound track. Life is messy, at times, and this is an engaging microcosm.

The most polarizing film I've seen all year... and I watched it by myself. I rolled my eyes and groaned through the first 15 minutes or so, thinking it was the celluloid equivalent of a hipster: trying too hard to be aesthetically interesting, but ultimately just annoying AF. But then... magic. I laughed and squealed my way through the rest of the movie. I'm hard to please, cinematically speaking, and most films get a tepid response, but I'll be recommending this to everyone I know who doesn't have a large twig lodged anywhere. I buy maybe two or three DVDs a year, and this one I'm buying. This is not Camus. If you go in expecting chasms of depth instead of the campy, bizarro bloodbath of a trip that it is, you're not going to like it. You're going to be miserable. Watch it sober. Watch it the opposite of that. But watch it.