This stands out from your jump scare or just plain poor plot horror movies. I watch as much horror as I can and this was an original idea and very well written. After the movie, you will piece together more and more of how it all ties together.

Scary, yet enough twists to keep you on the edge of your seat until the end. The acting was very good and really ties in with the themes in the film.

This is more of the stick with you, creepy, dread, existential type horror, but also had many scary scenes.

Also love to see a movie like this create a star actor and get picked up for distribution at Sundance. We need many more horror films like this and less of these cookie cutter, one page plot horror movies.

Its an overall good movie especially considering it is the first feature film attempt by the directors. But is far from perfect. The biggest (& possibly the only) flaw of the movie is its protaganist. She does not miss a single chance to act stupid & selfish and keeps getting everyone else into trouble. This makes watching the movie a frustrating experience at times. If there was a proper sensible character to counter her and was given as much screen time, movie would have been better. But on technical level, its a well made movie with nice effects, cinematography, acting & direction. In the end, if I was to rank this movie in comparison to other horror movies. I would rank it above any conjuring or insedious sequels but below movies like 'It Follows'.

I really love horror movies. This had an amazing premise. I loved the ghosts. They were very well crafted and scary especially when each person initially grabs the hand. The cast and acting are phenomenal. But the violence and gore in this movie seemed highly unnecessary. I wish they had made it more psychological. The brother scene seemed way overboard and meant to just be shocking without any value.

But let's cut to the scene where Mia inadvertently stabs her dad. We've scene this same cliche a million times where the ghosts make people think her father is some evil figure, and then they kill said father. I've seen this done so many times. They could have done without that, and it didn't serve much purpose except for her friend to have some sort of notification that Mia had gone off the deep end.

The ending was nice, again a little cliche, more like the Ouija stuff where the protagonist eventually is trapped with the rest of the ghosts in the hand. The fact that she comes back to possess someone else at a party was interesting.

Obviously, they didn't delve too deep into the history of the hand itself, because they intend sequels or a trilogy. But I can see this starting to spin out of control, where there will be more and more violence in each movie after this that tries to outdo the previous one and be more shocking. I hope they focus more on the story here next time and move away from the endless bloodletting.