In the basement her stepdaughter Alice (Pyper Braun) finds an old Teddy Bear and christens it Chauncey.
No good will come of this.
This very by the numbers "haunted toy" Blumhouse feature has the odd interesting moment but suffers awfully from feeling just like the production line item it is. The cast are fine but it just lacks any spark: maybe something to lay at the Director's feet?
It's got a nice line in "childhood imagination is intrinsically magical" and the Never Ever is a little bit Beetlejuice in style but this can't rescue it from mediocrity and while it probably wasn't intended to be particularly scary it isn't at all and I am now so done with extended scenes in improbably dingey basements. The ideas are just so much better then the execution, 5/10 meh.