And the denouement really delivered for me, reminiscent of Hitchcock's style. I did not see some of the "Surprises" coming, making them jolt-worthy. It's superbly effective and was comprehensively creeping me out! When the set action pieces do occur then they are satisfactorily exciting, albeit wildly implausible. Cinematographer Stefan Duscio keeps slowly panning away from Cecilia across the room to show empty corridors before slowly panning back again. When things start to happen, they happen so stealthily that I needed to hit the rewind button a couple of times (no cinema experience for this one I'm afraid).
And in this Blumhouse production, after a clever attention-grabbing opening, he really takes his time in building an understanding of Cecilia's mental state. So he knows a thing or two about crafting horror movies. But as strange things start to happen, is the ghost of Griffin back to haunt her? Or is it really all in her rapidly disintegrating mind, as her sister Emily (Harriet Dyer) and James suspect? Australian writer/director Leigh Whannell is famous as the writer behind the "Saw" and "Insidious" franchises. Now living with old friend James Lanier (Aldis Hodge) and his teenage daughter Sydney (Storm Reid), Cecilia can finally start to relax.
So she is much relieved, if a little surprised, at the report of his suicide. Escaping from his fortress-like home, she lives in fear of his retribution. Cecilia Kass (Elisabeth Moss) is trapped in a highly controlling and violent relationship with technology mogul Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen).
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