Will works as a therapist, seeing patients in his home office. One day a troubled man comes to see him without an appointment.
No good will come of this.
CW: Jump scares
This is a "monster in the closet" horror adapted from a Steven King short and helmed by Rob Savage who had a big hit with "Host" which was an innovative lockdown smash.
This is not innovative.
There's a big slice of "The monster is grief" and shades of "The Babadook" but it's clumsy and as it goes on it turns to actual monster hunting which feels out of touch with the early sections.
The finale is filled with visual exposition and it ends in a terrible slapped on saccharine scene that is only topped by a "but is it really gone?" stinger for heavy handedness.
It's not as terrible as that makes it sound it's just very very pedestrian.
The house is eternally dark, even in daytime, with little pools of light to accentuate the shadows. There's a basement where the lights don't work. Time and distance are malleable and the non existence of meaningful light sources at key points are essential to the functioning of the plot.
Working within genre conventions is key to many things but here it just feels silly.
Yawn, 5/10 had expected much more.