#95 - Imaginary (2024) Review

It’s the 2024 micro-budget Blumhouse horror that focuses on childhood imaginary friends with a sinister turn, but is Imaginary a good horror movie or just another run-of-the-mill shithouse dump?Join BP, Coop and Justin as we venture into a world of ~pure imagination~.

Imaginary is a 2024 American supernatural horror film directed and produced by Jeff Wadlow and written by Wadlow and the writing team of Greg Erb and Jason Oremland. It stars DeWanda Wise, Tom Payne, Taegen Burns, Pyper Braun, and Verónica Falcón.

In the film, a woman returns to her childhood home and discovers her stepdaughter's imaginary friend is more than imaginary.

Imaginary was released in the United States by Lionsgate on March 8, 2024. It received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed $43 million.

Chapters

00:00 Opening

40:00 Title Sequence

01:28 Overall Thoughts

04:29 Favourite Parts

8:18 What We Disliked

12:45 Trivia

17:43 Ratings and Final Thoughts

19:47 Thank You

20:20 Intensive Care Bear

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Box office

Imaginary has grossed $28 million in the United States and Canada and $15.7 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $43.7 million.

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 24% of 104 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 4.1/10.

The website's consensus reads: "Imaginary's core concept is solid enough to produce a handful of scares, but too much of its potential is lost in a clichéd story that gets bogged down in world-building."Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 34 out of 100, based on 21 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.

Audiences surveyed by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C+" on an A+ to F scale, while those polled by PostTrak gave it an 57% overall positive score.

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