★★★★★ OUT NOW CINEMAS
Blumhouse’s latest offering follows Jessica (DeWanda Wise) as she moves her family – Tom Payne’s cookie-cutter ‘horror husband’ and two stepkids - into her childhood home. In the basement, youngest daughter Alice (Pyper Braun, the best actor of the bunch) discovers Jessica’s old teddy bear Chauncey; creepiness, naturally, ensues. There are some decent-enough scares, from the impactful cold open to the pull-string set-piece. But for a film about the power of imagination, it’s frustrating how little this ultimately toothless effort trusts the audience to use its own.