"Highlights just how lazy conventional horror relies on cheap noise jumps and startle tactics in place of creating a deep running dread, which actually affects you.
The film drips of confidence in the story and manner of terror it creates, the ominous music to accompany something as simplistic as 'it' walking, forever slowly and steadily towards its quarry, creates a deeply unsettling atmosphere that builds and builds as we try to understand just what faces our protagonists.
This could so easily have been laughably terrible in the wrong hands but the scripting and pacing is excellent, the characters empathetic and the mental breakdowns believable, a film that leaves lots to consider and ponder just what the creeping evil really is - a delightful gem in the horror genre"
- 8.5/10
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