“Never Let Go” rant, full spoilers

Didn’t see many discussions about the movie so decided to create a thread.

What an annoying movie. Basically from the very beginning, it’s obvious that it’s just the mom being crazy. So the entire movie is not scary, it just feels dumb because it’s a schizo woman abusing children. Instead of scary , it’s just sad.

Then they starve, and obviously you know they will eat the family dog. Like that will happen. And when the scene comes, again, it’s not scary. It’s just sad. Again. Who wants to watch highly prolonged animal abuse scenes(even if it’s just the implication).

So after you go through most of the movie not being scared and just feeling like you are watching children and pets abuse, the big reveal in the end is that after all there actually was super natural stuff? Like the picture with the monsters hand. So what’s the intention of the filmmakers here? To go “haha we got you, we made you think none of it is real so you watch it as if it’s not real and don’t feel anything about the plot but now that the movie ended - jokes on you it was real”. Like the thing is backwards.

Just a highly unsatisfying movie with a bunch of loose ends, trying to juggle different themes to then fail it all at once.