After a tragic accident leaves a counsellor father and his two daughter (one teen, one younger) without a mother and dealing with grief, a distraught man turns up claiming his family was killed by a 'shadow monster' and promptly hangs himself, leaving the family as new targets for the titular entity. Sombre, ponderously slow and dreary, the film unfortunately makes the grieving family somewhat dull and uninteresting, and this standard monster-under-the-bed/in-the-closet potboiler offers little beyond its basic premise, two effective jump scares and a messy finale. It also somewhat labours the thinly-veiled metaphor for the potentially mentally destructive effects of bereavement on children if not dealt with and handled properly, making the film overall worthy in intention but hardly entertaining to watch.
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