Kinderfänger

Director Christopher Landon crafts dread through the unsettling juxtaposition of the mundane and the monstrous. The horror seeps from the edges of the frame, often found in the static shots of empty classrooms and innocuous childhood artifacts.

What lingers after the credits is a pervasive sense of violation, the idea that terror can be curated and collected from the most vulnerable. It’s a slow-burn nightmare about the price of forgotten fears. — MovieFinder Editorial