This is the first time I've seen this movie, i jumped into it blindly, without any spoilers or opinions to warp my perception of how to think or feel about seeing this. And I'm happy to have caught up on this film. So where to start? Well, this is a psychological horror movie about a father of two kids, a boy and a girl. During a divorce, his ex-fiance (I'm assuming) didn't take it too well and things took a complete 180 from there, I'm going to have to spoil some of it to give my perspective and why i enjoyed it.
Now the thing that made this movie effective is the same thing as i can say about another film which this reminded me of, namely ''Hereditary'' where that movie was mostly about grief, illness, tragedy, family, this movie on the other hand seem to focus on beliefs and psychosis (I hope I'm not misinterpreting it) Let me explain, so in this movie we have Grace, the new stepmother, who is arguable the protagonist whilst the kids act as the antagonist, but the roles switch around on the later portion of the film. The reason why i I'm deducting this to be true is because from the start of the movie we are handed with clues, valuable clues that validates my statement. These clues are the gun the now dead wife used in the beginning and Mia's quote ''Mom won't go to heaven'' Because suicide won't give you a free ticket to heaven, you'll be stuck in limbo instead until you repent.
And since the kids discovered that Grace used to be part of a religious cult of some kind, this could be seen as blasphemy, but consider that in the movie during the time where she stays in the house, she uses pills which probably got prescribed to her, we do not get to know what kind of pills they are but i am willing to bet that they are to help her recover from the trauma, so she isn't completely out of it, she's just sick and she is trying to get better. What the kids were essentially doing was to escalate her condition until it spiraled out of control, but it went too far. This is where Grace's psychosis comes into question. A lot of her behaviors seemed to fit the description.
Or maybe I'm just reading too deep into this and the kids actually were the true evil in the cabin/house, and they drove Grace from a recovering sensitive woman into a delusional, god fearing person. I mean seriously, two kids pull a elaborate plan for what? Revenge? Or was it with good intentions? I Just can't wrap my head around it, but one thing is for sure, i genuinely felt bad for Grace.
Ok half asses analysis over, I'm giving it a 7/10, have a good night!
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