and then literally nothing horrible happens, you just have an entire film of “the lights go on and there’s nothing actually evil in the basement”/”it’s just the cat”/”it’s just the wind” moments, it ends with the family selling the house because it’s too hard to heat.
I think it’s genius.
Still an amazing film idea, and you just build dread and build dread and then “nope, it was a quiet drama about a family uprooting itself and the concept of home”