Imaginary

Had some high expectations for this. It was okay, but really not the best.

My middle schooler watched this at a sleepover, which pretty much typifies this film's target audience. It's a gateway horror film, introducing the kids to scary movies, but starting them out with something not too scary. A mother returns to her childhood home when her daughter begins talking to an imaginary friend who tells her to do increasingly sinister and dangerous things. Is the girl losing her mind, or is something supernatural going on? IMAGINARY doesn't let that mystery last long and quickly lets the audience know something supernatural is happening when the mom's old babysitter, the great Betty Buckley (CARRIE, EIGHT IS ENOUGH), provides hints about what's going on. Had the film left things more ambiguous as to what's happening, that would have been a more interesting and unsettling of film, such as Jennifer Kent's far superior film, THE BABADOOK. However, as I said before, this film is clearly targeted at the same tween audience who ate up M3GAN, which was just as slickly made as this film and equally as forgettable. IMAGINARY isn't a bad film, and it achieves what it sets out to accomplish, but it could have been a much more interesting and scary of film had it targeted a more adult audience. 

Tonally a bit confused. The attempts at humour seem a bit odd because it can't decide whether it's basic concept is just ridiculous or has some artistic merit and should be classed as 'horror'. The dialogue suggests it should be played broader, but we the viewer are just left perplexed. Not the best 'haunted teddybear' picture.

It has a few scary moments, but overall it just fails to deliver. It's nonsense and could have been fun but it turned out to be really boring and predictable.

Imaginary - 7.5/10. For some reason, Hollywood always has a dual genre film battle almost every year. In 97 we had Volcano and Dante’s Peak. 98 was Armageddon and Deep Impact. 99 saw the sea creature films Deep Blue Sea and Lake Placid. And fast forward to this year, and we have 2 imaginary friend based films (this film, and the soon to be released John Krasinski directed IF movie). How ironic that I went into this movie thinking it would be bad and that I just needed time to kill, but I ended up enjoying and being impressed by it! Like the recently released Spaceman, this might end up being something I enjoyed a lot more than others. Sometimes, its better to go into a film with no expectations whatsoever. Thinking that this would be the same quality as Night Swim (which was bad) and thinking this would be a mix between M3GAN and Friday Nights At Freddy’s, I honestly wasn’t really impressed with the movie until a big twist happened halfway. I won’t reveal it here, and call it cheesy or cliched, it worked for me. This was a surprisingly effect psychological/supernatural horror film, which felt a little more ambitious and in depth than some of the recent Blumhouse affairs. Is this an all time horror classic? Heck no! But, it does its job well, and surprisingly lands on its feet by the end too! Surprisingly good!

Me encantó,estubo muy buena la película,no dió miedo pero ni buscaba eso me gustó la forma en la que le dió a cada personaje su toque y el final estubo bueno 10/10

They started off very strong with the first few parts of the movie. Then slowly the movie slowly transitioned into a silly children's movie. The ending and final act of the movie may be the biggest change in an opinion I have ever had regarding a movies performance.

Thank you DeWanda Wise for trying to make this mess of a movie something more than an absolute shitshow

The end just gets a bit stupid to be honest but then you have to remind yourself you’re watching a film about an Imaginary friend anyway, the rest of the story line is great! We enjoyed it. People’s reviews are fickle

This is a truly original movie. Enjoyed it from start to finish, good characters, good story, good acting and production. Not exactly horror, more like fantasy with some horror mixed in. I loved it!