When Jessica's stepdaughter becomes obsessed with a stuffed bear, she uncovers its dark secrets.
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From Blumhouse (Insidious and The Purge franchises, Get Out) comes a chilling tale of childhood and repressed memories of the past. After Jessica (DeWanda Wise) moves back in to her childhood home in Louisiana with her family, the reappearance of an imaginary friend from her youth sets in motion a threatening scavenger hunt with Jessica’s stepdaughter, Alice (Pyper Braun). As Jessica’s memories begin to surface — aided by cryptic stories from an elderly neighbor (Betty Buckley) about a portal to the spirit world — she realizes the imaginary friend she left behind is very real… and very unhappy she left.
"The premise of Imaginary is intriguing: a woman (DeWanda Wise) moves in with her partner and young stepdaughter to the house where she grew up. There, the daughter discovers a small teddy bear, Chauncey, to which she develops an abnormal attachment. However, Chauncey soon reveals itself to be much more sinister than a harmless teddy bear. The concept allows the film to offer some effective scares, but given the superficiality with which it addresses it in the plot, it fails to transcend among the heap of horror movies released month after month. One of the weakest efforts from the Blumhouse studio."