Even if it had stayed within its fairly tropey new-tenants-are-weird course, thing would've still worked but then it cuts to an elaborate flashback at a crucial suspense moment, pretty gutsy if you ask me, and nudges it slightly off tangent into a plot tweak that's chewier and lingers more. One or two lame but negligible jump scares aside, the whole thing just lands. Ends, too, with a beautiful, rather poignant, coda that I can't stop thinking about. Sophon wrote Shutter and directed Coming Soon, which should be pedigree enough.
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