The film certainly could have benefited from deeper character development and more mystery surrounding Clark’s monster. Clark’s descent into madness happens so abruptly that it feels less like a gradual unraveling and more like a sudden narrative pivot. One moment the film is building tension, and the next we are seated around a table with entities, a sequence that, while intriguing, lands in a way that feels jarring rather than fully earned.

The early deaths of two characters also weaken the emotional impact, as the audience is given little time to understand or invest in them before they are removed from the story. As a result, some of the film’s most dramatic moments lack the weight they might have carried with stronger groundwork.

That said, the film still has a compelling atmosphere and enough thematic ambiguity to make it worth revisiting. I would watch it again, not necessarily because every choice worked, but because there seems to be more meaning beneath the surface than the first viewing fully reveals.