Imaginary

Not a total catastrophe, but perilously close to being one. Is it too obvious to say Imaginary is simply lacking in imagination?

While a bit unwieldy, Imaginary is a playfully deranged movie that's sure to be a hit at slumber parties. But grown-ups can enjoy its spirited scares, too.

It suffers from the plague of overly convoluted plots that are executed by overly simplistic means: flat expositional dialogue, car commercial visual style, and a seemingly first draft creative concept that never irons out the wrinkles.

If you’re a true horror fan, this film is not your friend.

If you can withstand some of the goofier moments... “Imaginary” might serve as a reasonably effective fright flick during a slow week.

None of this makes much of an impact given how poorly sketched the characters are, and how little there is to distinguish the film from hundreds of other horror movies that come out every year.

The result suffers from a fatal lack of imagination all the way to the climax, which echoes Coraline, Insidious, It and more to hoary and exhaustingly muddled effect.

There was a severe lack of imagination on display here.

The melodramatic and overstuffed script feels like an amalgamation of the latest Blumhouse offerings, which themselves were inferior versions of previous films. [Full Review in Spanish]

Unfortunately, Blumhouse’s Imaginary doesn’t really add anything new and instead cherry picks elements from other flicks that delivered similar superior scares.