“Afraid”

7.2

This was a weird one… None of the ideas are necessarily “new,” but this movie actually puts them on the screen. I felt like every premise included in the tight hour and a half runtime has been haunting society for the past 5-10 years, but we’ve all just let it fester instead of talking about it head-on, ya know? Or, it may be that I just finished the audiobook of Jonathan Haidt’s “Anxious Generation”… who’s to say?

Technicality-wise, this is a tight thriller. They try to add some jump scares to make it a horror flick, but they do little to take away from the “this is hitting a little too close to home” factor at play here. Fantastic acting by all involved, and phenomenal execution.