**Spoilers** People trashing this movie are just pressing sour grapes!
** Spoilers ahead, if you haven't seen the film, go away now! **
People who don't like the ending are folks that are too used to horror movies in the vein of Secret Window and Hide and Seek and seem to like and/or expect that type of ending. This is a *PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER*, not a straight horror flick, or witchcraft or anything else. The chick is bonkers and it is a descent into her madness - nothing else, and that is a good thing.
People who are mad or disappointed about the ending are folks who wanted it to be something supernatural, which it is NOT. What is wrong with that? I like the fact that it was something different that what we have seen a LOT of in the last few years. Accept it for what it is and it's a lot of fun.
Shue gives a very nuanced performance, and people whining about her whining are whiners. She is going INSANE; some whining goes with the territory folks.
This movie is a glimpse into the mind, and *out* of the mind of someone losing their mind. It avoids a lot of the older cliché elements like wavy, dizzy camera moves, echo voices, blurry POV shots and so forth. Instead it shows how it must FEEL to go bonkers - in that respect it was enormously successful.
Think about how YOU might portray someone losing their mind from THEIR point-of-view, and then ask yourself if it was a good movie. I think if you accept it from that standpoint you will appreciate the picture much more.
**Spoilers ahead about the movie Danika - don't read if you haven't seen Danika!**
In my opinion it is much more successful than the other "losing your mind" picture Danika, which plays it fast and loose with the audience, and in my opinion cheats in that regard.
This is a good movie, if you accept it for what it is... a slow, sad and frightening descent into madness.