Alice (Ashley Tickell) and Ben (James Chianese) are mighty worried, because their daughter Sue (Maxine Sutton) is playing with her creepy doll again of late. Now the doll had something to do with a trauma a few months back, but Alice and Ben thought they had gotten Sue off the thing, and now whatever they're trying to get Sue abandon her dolly, it doesn't work - especially when daddy takes Sue for a long walk to talk her out of it, she suddenly runs away, and Ben trips and is seriously injured following her. In the meantime back home, Alice and Isaac (Jake Langlois) find the torn to pieces body of the family dog, and it soon becomes clear to them that Sue must have been behind this (which is true, too). So there's a bit of panic there.

In the meantime, it has turned night, and two befriended handiman, Dalton (Jeremiah Dupre) and Kaleb (Julian Christian) are driving up to Alice and Ben's home and find Sue wandering the streets with her doll in her arms, and she claims she has been lost - so of course, it's only natural for them to drive her home as they're going there anyways. Yet nobody knows it, Sue is actually possessed, and it has to do with her doll, and now that she's back home she can bring doom to her whole family ...

One has to say one thing about Sue - it's properly creepy: The direction puts an emphasis on atmosphere, but there are bloody bits as well, and just at the right plotpoints, too, the story unfolds on just the right, relaxed pace, the performances are on point, and the girl and her doll are genuinely creepy. In a word, it's a movie that will stay with you loong after you've watched it ... but then again, it's several feet from being perfect: Basically, it just leaves too much in the dark - and that said, I'm not someone who needs explanations for everything in horror cinema, quite the contrary ... but this movie goes a bit too far in veiling its backstory in the dark - frankly going out of the movie you feel quite a junk of it was just missing mind you, and it makes one wonder if that was strategy or just somewhat lazy writing ...

But that said, if you're at all into horrors you will get a kick out of this movie regardless - but some more attention to detail in the script would sure have helped ...

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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