2024 · horror · mystery · supernatural
Imaginary
Directed by Jeff Wadlow1h 44m2024
When Jessica moves back into her childhood home with her family, her youngest stepdaughter Alice develops an eerie attachment to a stuffed bear named Chauncey she finds in the basement. Alice starts playing games with Chauncey that begin playful and become increasingly sinister. As Alice’s behavior becomes more and more concerning, Jessica intervenes only to realize Chauncey is much more than the stuffed toy bear she believed him to be.
Our read: Imaginary (2024) reads as a heavy, kinetic, inventive horror · mystery · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, measured horror / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
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