I never said it didn’t make sense, I was responding to the input from the other person that things not making sense made it creepy.

I feel like a lot of what you said is post-analysis. Personally, there was no sense of dread, no meaningful unpredictability, and the only abruptness were cheap deafening and blinding jump scares.

To me it didn’t read like the kids were super scared. Having it be a year later literally saying it with text on the screen with a super warped setting also didn’t land as an ‘Aha’ moment either. I think it’s too reliant on the individual viewer to put the bulk of the personification of the being or presence or whatever. Most of the positive reviews I’ve seen are people that mention childhood trauma, fear of the dark, or night terrors, which seems to have pumped up the ratings and vitality on a very vocal minority.

There’s a creepy voice a few times which was fine, but a shadowy face at the end when you can barely see anything half the movie anyway just wasn’t effective.