Stephanie

This movie had a great concept, but the execution just wasn’t quite there. It’s worth watching just to experience the story, I would love to see someone take this story and do it better.

The build up of the movie is a bit of a mess, and a little cringey, relying a little too much on jump scares. However, there's definitely some strong material underneath here, with some good disturbing imagery and a well put together climax. In fact, the climax is what saves this movie, since the rest drags on a bit, and tries a little too hard to build a twist. In the end, it feels like this movie had too much time to fill, and enough interesting material to fill an episode of some horror anthology series, but not enough for a movie. In a more condensed form, the story would have been a bit cliche, but still thoroughly interesting, especially with the great use of effects in the climax (which were mostly minimal, but combined with Stephanie's great performance, really pulled things together).