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‘Imaginary’ Review: A Sinister Teddy Bear and Too Much Schlock Metaphysics
A domestic horror movie builds an overly busy world of imaginary friends gone demonic.
In the ancient days (i.e., before the “Conjuring” films mainstreamed the overcomplication of bare-bones horror), “Imaginary” would have been an elemental spook show about a plaything that wreaks havoc by doing dastardly things. “M3GAN,” which was also a Blumhouse production (a far superior one), had that kind of catchy and scannable horror-film psychology in the relationship that developed between Violet McGraw’s Cady and her lethal robot-doll BFF. That said, you know you’re in the hands of a horror-movie pro whenever Betty Buckley shows up, in oversize glasses and clipped Middle American suburban dowager hair, and with an intrusive smirk, as Gloria, the busybody of a neighbor who used to babysit for Jessica when she was a little girl.
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