A domestic horror movie builds an overly busy world of imaginary friends gone demonic.
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I’m not saying that would have been a good movie, but it probably would have worked on its own grisly, quasi-campy terms. Now, though, that basic story isn’t good enough. It’s got to be layered with trappings skimmed off the top of assorted genres. Alice has an imaginary friend, but so did her stepmother, Jessica , who lived in the same house until she was five.
In its skittery, overlayered trickiness, what “Imaginary” lacks is a grounded feeling for the psychology that binds children to the friends they make up.which was also a Blumhouse production , had that kind of catchy and scannable horror-film psychology in the relationship that developed between Violet McGraw’s Cady and her lethal robot-doll BFF. But psychology, in too many films these days, is the dramatic ingredient that gets left on the shelf .
That said, you know you’re in the hands of a horror-movie pro whenever Betty Buckley shows up, in oversize glasses and clipped Middle American suburban dowager hair, and with an intrusive smirk, as Gloria, the busybody of a neighbor who used to babysit for Jessica when she was a little girl. Gloria, who discovered the sinister metaphysics of the imaginary-friend world back then, has written a historical tome about the subject. She’s officially obsessed, and might even be one of the villains.
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