headrest posted:

As someone else here already elegantly put it, it is really refreshing to see a horror movie not buried under piles of irony, pop culture references, and winky-winks at the camera. This is a horror film that is aware of its influences but remains simple and straightforward. Weirdly, this may confuse people looking for more substance. It did to me at first. I wanted a scene of them poring over books in a library, doing detective work, figuring out the nature of the beast. But its focus on its premise is what makes it so drat intriguing. And like any good horror movie, it lingers in the mind because of its insistence on being ambiguous.