This is a supernatural horror film with plenty of creepy scares - mostly jump scares but other, more meaningful dread scares. A lot of them are actually quite good but the story is so convoluted that it is difficult for me to fully get behind this film.

This movie just is going in so many directions at once and there are certain scenes that are just so poorly written that it is hard to watch. It also contains some of those time-wasting scenes and the normal idiocy that happens in horror films all too often: One person sees something incredible that if the other person would just go up the friggen stairs and LOOK at what the other person is talking about the entire thing could be resolved. Eventually they do go, but not before having a 10 minute useless diatribe with the other person about how "you need professional help," etc.

Toni Collette is a woman (named Anne in the film) who specializes in making custom dollhouses and other small replica items. She also specializes in having this look on her face and pleading with people to believe her.

It seems strange to me that there are certain times in the movie that she absolutely refuses to believe any of the crazy-sounding stuff that other people say (sometimes even laughing at them) despite the fact that she spouts off plenty of crazy on her own throughout the movie. Hypocrite much?

The rest of the main cast does a pretty good job as far as acting goes but there are portions of the script that are so poorly written that even having a legendary actor like Gabriel Byrne in the movie couldn't rectify it - and to be fair he is not really in a great deal of the movie. There is one particularly long scene, that i would imagine it was difficult to film, that the word "please" is said by Anne no less than 40 times in 2 minutes. It is just hard to watch.

The movie takes so many impractical and unexplained turns that when the shock ending is presented to you, not only do you not understand how it is that we got here, or why, but you don't even care. The movie definitely is scary, there is no doubt about that. Using heart rate monitors on test audiences they attempted to prove it is the scariest movie of 2018. I'm in my 40's and i turned the lights on for the 2nd half of the film.

All this doesn't change the fact that the movie doesn't make sense, lacks in continuity, and a lot of the dialogue is just dumb.

This movie suffered a massive disparity between official critic reviews and review scores made by the general public. There is such a noticeable difference between the two that there has been some chatter about how it is suspected that the critics were (and continue to be) paid to give positive scores by this studio as several of their other films have experienced the same phenomenon.