Sweetdew

This is a long big production and it has a build up thats on purpose. I had only seen a couple trailers and knew of no other information and wow, it was a ride. Im always worried with new movies if things are CGI or GenAI filtered / assisted, afaik its cgi and the director has commented the creatures are 'meant' to look like that.

I would not classify this as a horror, it wasn't scary by my standards. Fantasy / sci-fi / and comedy yes!
The writing dialogue was a bit lackluster with the cops and banter between characters. If anything the creatures moving around was very funny, if you've seen Attack on Titan you may know why we were laughing. The amount of times guns were reloaded without firing a full clip - even firing the gun at ALL was... a lot. For such a big budget production how do they mess up all the little things? Even the audio sometimes seemed weird, in the beginning when they're investigating the body you can see its outside, windy. Yet the audio has no wind, it sounds very "in studio" voice overs and for me it takes away from the scene. Cinematic shots were wonderful, filming locations, the horseback riding through the forest was beautiful. Really cool to know that its a real couple playing together in this. Feels very "hollywood gunslinging action" I would've loved more horror to be under that genre.

I would watch the sequel if they make one. (unless I find out they used genAI then I wont be.) Its a fun watch with friends!