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Skinamarink's heavy use of Leave the Camera Running for the Nothing Is Scarier effect can make for some, if not many, terrifying moments in 100 minutes of tension.
- The Entity, whatever it is, is one of the cruelest horror villains in recent memory.
- "PUT THE KNIFE IN YOUR EYE". Kevin complies, although we immediately cut to different parts of the house. We don't see the damage, but we hear Kevin's agonizing screams.
- After Kaylee disappears, Kevin finds her in the basement. When he shines his flashlight on her, it's revealed with a Jump Scare that the Entity has taken away her eyes and mouth, not unlike to how it took away the windows and doors of the house.
- Not long after the above, it appears to Kevin, and makes him sleep with a simple utterance of the word. What makes this even worse is that, later it's revealed it did the above to Kaylee because she "disobeyed" it and didn't leave when it told her to, and thus saw it's true form. But if it truly wanted her to leave, it could have simply made her sleep and then forced her downstairs. Meaning it gave her such a terrible fate for "disobeying" it, for pretty much no other reason than just because it could and it WANTED to.
- When Kevin attempts to call 9-1-1, the Entity turns the phone into a toy halfway through the call. Making it worse is the implication that it could have done so from the beginning, it simply wanted Kevin to have a little bit of hope before snatching it away again.
- The ending scene. Kevin sees an (unclear) face in the dark that tells him to "go to sleep". When he asks for its name, it doesn't reply. Then the movie ends.
- The scene in the bedroom, where Kaylee is confronted by her mother. The very brief context clues given earlier hint that the latter is not supposed to be in the house, and that Kaylee is not happy to see her. Most disturbing of all is the ambiguity of whether the Entity placed her there to torment Kaylee, or if she showed up of her own volition at some point earlier in the night.
- Her father also shows up very briefly when Kaylee says she doesn't see what's under the bed. He appears and disappears very suddenly without saying anything or acknowledging Kaylee.
- That's not even getting to how the scene ends. After the encounter, we fade back to the open doorway where a few wet crunching sounds can be heard. Then a bright light flashes onscreen with a loud-as-hell scream (presumably from Kaylee) before cutting back to Kevin in the living room. JESUS CHRIST.
- Why was Kaylee screaming? Because if you look closely, a mysterious hand briefly appears and touches the wall.
- Two words. 572 DAYS. It's cold hard confirmation of the Entity's (until then only implied) Time Master powers, and it's a bone-chilling reveal that these two little children have been stuck in this hellish nightmare with this cruel, reality-warping monster, enduring god only knows what manner of Cold-Blooded Torture, and have been there through two birthdays.
- The blood scene. Ungodly screaming followed by a massive splatter... that the Entity rewinds. Again and again and again. If one listens closely, it almost sounds like the Entity screams, "ISN'T THIS FUN?" at one point. And as if the scene couldn't get any harder to watch, a lone subtitle appears:
- The infamous Chatter Telephone jumpscare. After the timeskip there's a sequence where Kevin is looking around the house with the flashlight, each shot of which involves seeing a dimly lit area for about 5-10 seconds before it's illuminated by the light for another 5-10 seconds before cutting to the next dimly lit area. This pattern repeats several times before cutting to a shot where two eyeballs can be clearly seen in the darkness, before the light illuminates what is revealed to be the toy telephone. After about 5 seconds of no doubt palpable relief from the viewer of it not being anything more terrifying, the phone suddenly and jarringly blares out ringing along with its eyes shifting so that they are staring directly into the camera before quickly cutting away. It's probably safe to say more than a few viewers were left cursing at their screens in the aftermath of this scene.
- This is a rare example of a movie that is actually scarier watched at home, especially if you're in the dark, late at night, and home alone. Good luck trying to sleep at all.
