Despite it's low budget and questionable acting by the male character, I was actually quite enjoying this ..until the ending retconned everything I liked about it.
I get what they tried to do here thematically and would have welcomed the same twist if only it was handled better.. but the old "it was all a dream / all in their head" switcheroo is the laziest form of writing and employed by writers who seemingly want to wrap things up quickly after not knowing how to give a story an ending befitting of it's second act.
Not only that but such only does a disservice to earlier scenes which were good, and now in hindsight make zero sense in terms of both plot and character motivations.
This could've actually been pretty decent creature feature OR a psychological thriller... if only it hadn't tried to be both.
I get what they tried to do here thematically and would have welcomed the same twist if only it was handled better.. but the old "it was all a dream / all in their head" switcheroo is the laziest form of writing and employed by writers who seemingly want to wrap things up quickly after not knowing how to give a story an ending befitting of it's second act.
Not only that but such only does a disservice to earlier scenes which were good, and now in hindsight make zero sense in terms of both plot and character motivations.
This could've actually been pretty decent creature feature OR a psychological thriller... if only it hadn't tried to be both.