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Where do you start with this film? The wee old lady with a strange box, who knocks on the door? The voices from beyond and on the phone? The wee old lady who shows up later?

Who was she? Where did the box come from? Who really cares?

That's the best I can say about it.

Except to say, I wouldn't bother wasting your time.

Vicious has a lovely vibe to it in terms of creating a desolate feeling inside of a suburban street. The enigma of the plot is tantalizing as we contemplate what is meaningful to us, and we contemplate what we would do for it. And, we watch the movie wondering what this character will do.

As for the overall film, it has an emptiness to it that doesn't get filled and doesn't get resolved. I finished it feeling unsatisfied. The idea suggested at the end isn't complete, and maybe that ambiguity is to make us think about our own lives. This may have come across better if the main character wasn't quite so trope laden as the troubled mess-up of a person.

And while Dakota Fanning embodies this character well, I wished I cared for this character more. Another bleak film to weigh down our sense of selves as the world crumbles around us. Sigh. What joy.

I wanted to love this. I had high hopes especially with Dakota in it. However, if you want to see Dakota Fanning cry for an hour and nothing really significant happen, then this is the movie for you. No jump scares and really just a bunch of "gross" moments that lead to more boringness. I won't recommend to my friends.

It's a psychological horror film where the ghost might not actually exist. In fact, the movie is quite well-made, it's just that viewers expected something different. For me, this film reflects the human mind; our fears and emotions can often be dangerous. As shown in the movie, the ghost may not be real, but the story is meant to express emotions and illustrate how feelings can be conveyed.

If you enjoy listening to someone gasp-cry for an hour and a half this will be the perfect movie for you. Can't say there's really any spoilers here since the plot was 90% listening to the relentless gasping of the lead character. Might have been 100% of said gasping but with 20 minutes to go everyone in the room agreed that we couldn't take it anymore and we turned it off.