Owen Gleiberman Chief Film Critic It used to be that if a horror movie wasn’t very good, it was probably too simplistic in its fear mechanics: stalker on the loose, ghost in the attic, don’t go in the basement.
Today, though, it’s often the case that megaplex horror schlock isn’t too simple — it’s too busy, too fraught with convolutions.
Instead of jump scares, we get world-building hoops to jump through. “Imaginary,” a watchable mess of a child’s-play fright flick, exemplifies the trend of overwrought too-muchness.
The movie pivots around a little girl, Alice (Pyper Braun), who in the basement of her new home discovers an old Teddy bear, named Chauncey, who becomes her imaginary friend.
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