I don’t think the point of the movie was to scare the audience; I think it was more trying to represent grief and depression as a horrible monster. I took it as an emotional movie about grief that happened to have horror elements, not as just something with shock value whose whole purpose is to scare you.
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I don’t think the point of the movie was to scare the audience; I think it was more trying to represent grief and depression as a horrible monster. I took it as an emotional movie about grief that happened to have horror elements, not as just something with shock value whose whole purpose is to scare you.