There were parts of this movie that will forever stick with me. I made sure not to read too much about this because I heard it was a solid original idea and I wanted to see it fresh. At first, I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about it, as I found myself zoning out during the initial lead in.

That all changed the moment the first character held the hand. I was immediately pulled into the story and the concept. It had a few scenes that felt a little unnecessary, especially when that scene is presented as giving you an answer just to be told that the answer you were given wasn't true just a few scenes later. If a scene does absolutely nothing to build or progress any aspect of the movie, then it probably isn't needed. But those scenes where very few and far between, and were filmed well enough that it didn't feel like it stopped the flow of the movie.

The story and the mythos it built were original and fun. I was fully into every moment the hand came out, and loved the story created by the after-effects of the hand. And the very last scene was just perfect.

I did find myself not really caring about any of the characters. It wasn't the actors at all, the actors were all actually really great, but it was just the characters themselves. I believed every moment the actors presented, but at no point did I care if a character lived or died. But that is most likely because everything bad that happened to a character happened because of said character, and they wanted to focus more on the story than try to build up a whole flawed hero narrative that wasn't really necessary. The one attempt at building a flawed hero narrative fell flat for me, so I am kind of glad they didn't spend any more time on it.

A very solid 8, and I was really bouncing between an 8 or a 9 until I came to that realization that I didn't care about the fate of the main characters. But still, great horror movie.