It's as if someone put the Slenderman meme, the scary girl from The Ring franchise, The Babadook and a few others through a woodchipper and sprayed the resulting mulch on to the screen.

There was so much fun to be had along the way. Chase takes his story much too seriously to entertain that proposition. It's suffused with an atmosphere of dogged naturalism, rooted so firmly in the everyday that fun might well be a foreign word.

Chase turns up the volume and relies on jump scares to build the mood, but the frights barely leap out of the screen.

Despite not being excessively novel, it is quite effective and better finished than most... [Full review in Spanish]