I should have known better than to expect some random Netflix horror to truly be excellent but based on the relatively positive reviews and claims how fresh the movie felt I was, admittedly, pretty optimistic going into it.

What I got was okay, but I really don't see what's so special about this film versus every other spirit-communication-gone-wrong genre piece before this.

On the surface this hand gimmick as the method of spirit communion seems fresh, but really it's just replacing the worn out Ouija board trope summons something evil with another communication mechanism. After that the rest of the movie falls in line with your typical story beats in relative lockstep.

The final sin for me is the movie is frankly just not very scary. I never jumped, I was never creeped out, I was never really intrigued - but at least I was never really bored so there's that.